On 6/13/10 5:33 PM, Øyvind Hvidsten wrote:
> It could be logical leaks, or whatever is the correct english term for
> them. Memory that's used, and kept track of, but not used again, and not
> freed until the program shuts down. The memory usage is constantly
> increasing. I have a process using 3 gigs now, and it just runs one of
> those testcases (on a lot more data).
You could try using the system malloc instead of the one that comes with
bash. Configure --without-bash-malloc and see if that changes the
allocation behavior.
Chet
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