I often run wget on both a Fedora box and a Debian box. I let it collect data for days at a time. On Fedora it does this without seeming to use a large amount of memory while on Debian it quickly uses up as much swap memory as it can get ahold of. Is there any reason why this is so or any way I could control this?
It'd be nice if this 'bug' was fixed so that wget could be limited to a certain amount of memory and told to keep it's working data on the file system. Running wget bogs my Debian computers down a lot mostly due to it's memory usage. -- http://kavlon.org/
