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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

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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