Re: /usr/bin/less weird memory consumption?

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:53:46 -0500 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:51 UTC

In the last episode (Apr 16), Tai-hwa Liang said:
> Hi,
> 
>   Anyone tried to view a file contains *hugh* line with /usr/bin/less in
> -CURRENT?
> 
> Sample file:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1500 | tr '\00' ' ' > test.txt
> 
>   On my -CURRENT box cvsup'd this morning, "/usr/bin/less text.txt" consumes
> about 511 MBytes of memory(see 'top'). -STABLE(less 358) and less 381 on
> Debian doesn't seem to have such problem, though.

Yes, I've been seeing it for a while, too, but haven't tried to track
down the cause.

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