Bug 51257

Summary:	Lynx leaks memory.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kedar N Patankar <kedarnp>
Component:	lynx	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Kedar N Patankar 2001-08-08 19:55:58 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
When I use lynx to download a *huge* file (Latest Redhat beta iso images) 
over ftp, it leaks memory.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use lynx to download a huge file (650MB in my case).


Actual Results:  After about 300MB of download, the process killer from 
2.4.x kernel kicks in and (correctly) kills lynx for consuming too much 
memory.


Expected Results:  Lynx should be able to download as big files as my disk 
allows over ftp w/o problems.

Additional info:

I am running a 600MHz Duron on an FIC AZ11e motherboard, and 256MB of 
PC133 SDRAM.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-09 13:35:54 UTC

This information won't be very useful if you're trying to download the new 
beta, but it's fixed in the current beta. ;)
Just downloaded the isos using lynx and its memory usage never exceeded 4 MB.