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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx "eats" a lot of RAM in few seconds!
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx "eats" a lot of RAM in few seconds! |
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Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:14:00 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> 040907 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Testing your file, I do see that lynx gets hung with current (2.8.6dev.5).
>
> on my machine ( 512 MB RAM ), despite a storm of disk & CPU activity,
> i managed to get to the Gkrellm desktop,
> which showed that CPU is not running anywhere near 100 % ,
> but that memory is being eaten at a v fast pace:
> 'free' now shows 96 MB in swap, far more than sb the case ordinarily.
> i regained control by hitting the Mutt window title-bar kill button,
> there being nothing beyond a status msg in the Lynx screen.
When I ran it, I didn't have any trouble killing it off (but I started it
from the command-line in the console on a 1Gb machine). I'd run tidy to
check the file, but as noted, am building up a new development machine (to
replace the one which died last week).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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