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

Well hung ones are bad too. 

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rob Helmer wrote:

> 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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