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  • From: Rob Helmer <robert AT namodn.com>
  • To: nick AT namodn.com
  • Cc: Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Swollen bash
  • Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:45:33 -0700

ouch, I hate it when I have an itchy, swollen bash, you know, down
there.


On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:04:53AM -0400, Dufflebunk wrote:
> 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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