On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:34:42PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: > Please see <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=280187> > where it is documented that grep -o uses increasing amount of memory, > probably indicating a leak. You can test with: > > grep '^c..........' /usr/share/dict/words >/tmp/words > ./build-tree/grep-2.5.1/src/grep -of /tmp/words /usr/share/dict/words > > It seems to me that after each output, grep should return to the > approximate memory usage as at the previous output. However, the > memory usage instead increases, consistent with the report. On second thought, this was nearsighted. Since grep -f leaks, grep -of leaks. grep -o seems to have been fixed since the report was submitted.
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