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

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Alex Vasylenko wrote:
> Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
> >   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.
>
> There's a memory leak. The latest less (382) doesn't have this problem.
> Use attached patch.
>

That works like a charm! Any chance would this patch being committed into
the tree?