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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!cs.uow.edu.au!cc.uow.edu.au!pejn From: pejn@cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen) Subject: Re: free() - not working properly Message-ID: <1992Sep30.074301.22726@cc.uow.edu.au> Organization: University Of Wollongong References: <9227414.18251@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 07:43:01 GMT Lines: 21 johnp@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (John Steve PETROU) writes: >I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problems as me with >free(). I am having problems that look as though they are caused by memory leaks too. The first symptom I noticed is that there seems to be excessive swapping under X windows. As the only user, with 3 xterms, xman (maybe one page open) and xclock running the system quickly gets into a state where it has to swap each time I move between xterms - even when I just hop back and forth between two. Perhaps I do not understand memory management very well, but this seems excessive to me. My system is a 486 with 8 MByte memory and about 30 Mbyte of swap space. When I try to format the jove manual, groff died with an out of memory message. This happens even when I try to do it as the only user (without X windows) immediately after a reboot. Again, I have not investigated this very carefully, but I can't see anything obvious wrong with the manual source. I suppose it could be a bug in groff too. Any ideas anyone? Paul Nulsen pejn@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au