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Date:      Sun, 9 Apr 1995 00:15:49 -0600
From:      nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
To:        hstrong@eng2.uconn.edu (Hugh Strong)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: TIN Memory leakage
Message-ID:  <199504090615.AAA26913@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <9504090342.AA25552@mork.engineering>
References:  <9504090342.AA25552@mork.engineering>

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> A while back I compiled a binary version of TIN from
> the sources.  This binary has had a tremendous problem
> with memory leakage that can gobble 16-20MB of virtual
> memory with only an hour or so of usage.

It's an inherent TIN problem and has nothing to do with FreeBSD.  It's
been beat to death in a couple newsgroups already, and the consensus
was to not use TIN. :(

> My question is: Has this (obvious) problem been patched
> for the port and the binary package available on
> ftp.cdrom.com?  There appears to be a patch floating
> around that fixes the problem on ultrix 4.4, and I
> could post that if neccessary.

Can you apply the patch to TIN to a local copy of the sources and see if
it fixes the problem under FreeBSD?


Nate



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