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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Out of memory? Date: 25 Mar 1993 23:53:42 -0500 Organization: dis Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1ou28m$gqk@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <C4Ep1x.F56@ns1.nodak.edu> <2069@hcshh.hcs.de> <f038kYY@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <f038kYY@quack.kfu.com> dfox@quack.kfu.com (David Fox) writes: > > BTW, groff 1.07 was compiled with gcc 2.3.3, and so far I haven't > found any memory leaking problems in it. The leaking was fairly > serious in groff 1.01, and I could only do a few troff sessions > before the swap space got eaten up, [...] That sounds like a kernel bug. All the memory a process has allocated should be freed when it exits. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!