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:
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