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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Swollen bash
  • Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:04:53 -0400 (EDT)

Do you have the bash completition installed? Some people did have have
problems with huge memory consumption for some completition tasks. Run a
ps -afx and see if anything is hanging off of it... if not, I'd suggest
you close it.

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Robin wrote:

> Does anyone else see this happen every so often from the terminal they
> typically do casting from?
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 417 robin 9 0 407M 393M 1424 S 0.0 62.3 0:04 bash
>
> I don't -know- that it's sorcery related, it's only the second time that
> I have seen it (except when I do things like symlink ~/.profile to
> ~/.bashrc and have .bashrc source .profile...), but it -might- be
> suggestive of a memory leak somewhere (can scripts cause the shell they
> come from to take lots of RAM?).
> I'll leave it there for a little while, it's not growing, and I still
> have 100Mb free RAM or so, so it's not critical, in the hope that
> someone can tell me that it is possible to find what is making bash take
> excessive RAM.
>
>

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