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RE: Memory leakage?


On 11 June 2007 00:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:16:41PM +0000, Mark Geisert wrote:
>> Dave Korn writes:
>>> 
>>> On 10 June 2007 13:00, Edgar Matzinger wrote:
>>> 

>> I run this for a while and see gradually increasing memory usage.  Even
>> when all Cygwin processes are subsequently exited, that memory is not
>> released.  I also recoded that script for ash and ksh and the same thing
>> happens, so it's not bash's problem.
> 
> ...and if all Cygwin processes are subsequently exited then it isn't
> Cygwin's fault either.  Let's not go down this path again.  Cygwin has
> no magical powers to make Windows permanently use memory.  Look to
> resident third-party software to perform this feat, not Cygwin.

  Suspect your anti-virus' on-access file scanner.  They've been observed to
cause this kind of problem before.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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