Bug 51257 – Lynx leaks memory.

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Bug 51257 - Lynx leaks memory.

Summary:	Lynx leaks memory.

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	lynx (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2001-08-08 15:55 EDT by Kedar N Patankar
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:35 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-08-08 15:56:06 EDT
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Description Kedar N Patankar 2001-08-08 15:55:58 EDT

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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 09:35:54 EDT

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.

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