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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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