From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 Description of problem: Redhat 8.0 ships with aspell --version @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell .33.7.1 alpha) rpm -q aspell aspell-0.33.7.1-16 If I run this version against large xml documents (DocBook DTD), aspell consumes all memory and cpu but never displays any spelling errors. So I downloaded the newest version, built it and installed it. Problem solved. Time for y'all to step up. :-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: spell check a big xml file. Actual Results: most of memory consumed all of cpu consumed Expected Results: spell checking dialog should appear on console Additional info: Sorry, Can't send you the xml. Confidential.
aspell will be upgraded with the next release