Tom Badran wrote:
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> On Friday 21 Dec 2001 2:01 am, you wrote:
> > Thank you for confirming this...!!!!   I wrote about this a while back but
> > got little reaction...
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> > OK...  so far, Bill holds the record for the largest kppp.  Anyone else
> > wanna try to beat that...?  I have a 1GB machine and DSL at home, so no
> > ppp account.
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> > Don't care if it's a memory leak or anything else; this is just the type
> > of thing that can turn someone off Linux...  it needs fixing, IMNSHO!
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> This is because you leave the throughput graphs on. Thus, the longer you are
> connected, the more memory is used, as the whole graph is available in
> memory. All you have to do is turn this off.

(not directed at Tom)

1. kppp should *NOT* have graphing on by default

2. there is a memory leak therein which should be fixed; whether it is due to a
real leak, or one due to bad design/implementation, I see no reason for kppp to
continuously grow its memory requirements...  one does not need to log all
traffic for plotting.

My point is this:  on 7.2 and now on 8.1, I asked why this problem persists and
am told to "turn off graphing"...  IMNSHO, graphing should NOT be on by default;
the graphs are not visible by default, and their visibility is not even
presented as an option IIRC -- so why must the user be subjected to arbitrary
and unseen memory exhaustion on a whim...???

Talk about a way to turn off new users...  <SIGH>

Pierre

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