Re: Debugging memory usage

[John Reiser]

> I took a look and saw the bash process consuming as much as 3+ GB of 
> memory.  I'm not doing anything where I'd expect to be consuming that 
> much memory.

As a workaround, try using "ulimit -v" to restrict the virtual memory
space of the shell itself.  (For invoking some child processes, it may
be necessary to use an intermediate shell which raises the limit before
exec-ing the child.)  It is not uncommon for a process (not just bash)
to allocate until refused, and only then think about free()ing or
collecting garbage.

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