Re: [Groff] Memory usage of troff

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Using strace I found that running the following command in the
> specs/libX11 directory requires about 400MB of memory.
> 
>   troff -ms -dxV="libX11 1.3.2" -I. -dwww-image-template=. -Thtml libX11.ms 
> &> /dev/null
> 
> Now I don't know groff/troff so I ask you, is this not excessive?
> I would like to understand why troff uses so much memory.

It's a bug, fixed on 2009-04-10, I think.  Please try the CVS version.
Using it, the maximum number of allocated heap space (as checked with
massif) is 10.52MB for the above call on my Linux box.


    Werner