/usr/bin/less weird memory consumption?
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Apr 16 07:53:53 PDT 2004
In the last episode (Apr 16), Tai-hwa Liang said:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone tried to view a file contains *hugh* line with /usr/bin/less in
> -CURRENT?
>
> Sample file:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1500 | tr '\00' ' ' > test.txt
>
> On my -CURRENT box cvsup'd this morning, "/usr/bin/less text.txt" consumes
> about 511 MBytes of memory(see 'top'). -STABLE(less 358) and less 381 on
> Debian doesn't seem to have such problem, though.
Yes, I've been seeing it for a while, too, but haven't tried to track
down the cause.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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