On 6/13/10 5:33 PM, Øyvind Hvidsten wrote: > It could be logical leaks, or whatever is the correct english term for > them. Memory that's used, and kept track of, but not used again, and not > freed until the program shuts down. The memory usage is constantly > increasing. I have a process using 3 gigs now, and it just runs one of > those testcases (on a lot more data).
You could try using the system malloc instead of the one that comes with bash. Configure --without-bash-malloc and see if that changes the allocation behavior. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/