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Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I was still running rxvt v. 2.7.1 on my Solaris server. A user's rxvt
>process managed to fill every bit of swap which made it so that I could
>not start any new processes - not even to see what was running. I had to
>create more swap space, then find the errant process. Really nasty.
>
>Has this been observed before and repaired in a more recent version?
>I've been running rxvt 2.7.1 for 4 years and haven't had a problem until
>today. I suppose this means that the conditions that will cause such an
>event are rare. The user was running an ssh connection in the window:
>
>rxvt -e ssh blah...
>
>I don't know if that is relevant. Let me know if you know anything about
>this issue. Thanks in advance.
It is moderately likely that the user in question had a huge scrollback
buffer set; rxvt can chew up arbitrarily large amounts of memory if you
ask it to remember everything that's occurred in a long session.
- Alex
