Just ran into this. I think it should be considered a bug. Bash is currently holding onto 4.8 GiB of my memory, and when I try to run less or top it just states "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory".
Running a large for-loop should not make bash hold onto this much memory for its whole session. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82123 Title: bash is not freeing memory of backticked output To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bash/+bug/82123/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
