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From: nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Ray Nickson)
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Subject: memory leak
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Date: 25 Aug 89 03:59:34 GMT
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I don't think this has been reported before; apologies if it has.

Loops cause bash (1.02, gcc-compiled on HP300s running MORE/Bsd and
Sun380s running SUNOS4) to consume memory without bound.

This is quite dramatic; put bash into a tight loop
 (while :; do :; done) and watch the memory size; it goes up tens of 
Ks a second on a lightly loaded sun.  Similar behaviour also occurrs
with other more realistic loops, adding 20K or so for every half
dozen iterations.

Sorry I can't give any more details, I'll look deeper if you can't
reproduce it.

-rgn
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Ray Nickson, Dept. Comp. Sci., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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