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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Out of memory?
Date: 25 Mar 1993 23:53:42 -0500
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References: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <C4Ep1x.F56@ns1.nodak.edu> <2069@hcshh.hcs.de> <f038kYY@quack.kfu.com>
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In article <f038kYY@quack.kfu.com> dfox@quack.kfu.com (David Fox)
writes:
>
> BTW, groff 1.07 was compiled with gcc 2.3.3, and so far I haven't
> found any memory leaking problems in it.  The leaking was fairly
> serious in groff 1.01, and I could only do a few troff sessions
> before the swap space got eaten up, [...]

That sounds like a kernel bug.  All the memory a process has allocated
should be freed when it exits.

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