Bug 86296
| Summary: | huge memory leak in watch | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Adam Thompson <athompso> |
| Component: | procps | Assignee: | Alexander Larsson <alexl> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-08-21 21:17:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I don't see this in 2.0.11-4. Can you test the version in RAWHIDE? cannot reproduce in RH9.0 or 2.1AS, and I no longer have any RH8.0 system |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: use of 'watch' utility to watch *any* program's output appears to cause it to use up memory at a rate of approximately 1 Mbyte/sec. This naturally causes system instability when one leaves watch running in a terminal during a long (overnight) process... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-2.0.7-25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run 'watch' agains any program 2. watch RAM leak away... 3. use reset button to reboot system Additional info: