Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!uwm.edu!ogicse!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!gk5g+ From: gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Help and its memory usage behavior Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 90 20:46:25 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 Excerpts from misc: 21-Mar-90 Re: Help and its memory usa.. J Mukerji@mtgzx.att.com (1265+0) > I think even if it is decided to continue to use buffers for some > documents like 'csh' for caching as suggested by Nathaniel, a way must > be provided to get rid of that document to release memory without > getting out of Help altogether. Andy Palay has found many substantial core-leaks wrt help and is in the process of patching them. Stay tuned for a much leaner Help application. Gary Keim ATK Group PS - help doesn't use buffers and the path lookups aren't unreasonable.