Re: Severe memleak in sequence expressions?

[Marc Schiffbauer]

* Chet Ramey schrieb am 30.11.11 um 14:23 Uhr:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I think there is a severe memleak in bash.
> 
> It's not a memory leak.  It might reveal a sub-optimal memory allocation
> pattern -- asking for an array with that many strings is going to gobble
> a lot of memory -- but it's not a leak in the sense that bash loses
> track of an allocated chunk.

Well, but how do you explain that:

mschiff@moe:~$ bash
mschiff@moe:~$ ps u $$
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
mschiff  14156  5.2  0.1   8836  3692 pts/1    S    23:28   0:00 bash
mschiff@moe:~$ time echo {0..1000000}>/dev/null

real    0m2.307s
user    0m2.084s
sys     0m0.196s
mschiff@moe:~$ ps u $$
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
mschiff  14156 13.2  6.2 196272 191036 pts/1   S    23:28   0:02 bash
mschiff@moe:~$


-Marc
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