Re:

[Tran Thuan]

Hi Chet,

Thank you for your reply.
I try a very simple script as you can see, I don't think it need to check
by valgrind.
The RSS should not increase for running that script.

The OS used is OpenSUSE 64bit version 12.1
I don't have chance to check on MacOS or RHEL.

-- 
Thuan

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 7/14/14, 12:46 AM, Tran Thuan wrote:
>
> > I wrote a simple loop as following:
> >
> >
> >
> > while true; do
> >
> >                                 sleep 1
> >
> >                                 echo "hello"
> >
> > done
> >
> >
> >
> > But the RSS (resident set size) continue increase. (Check by ps command)
> >
> > Is it possible a bug of bash? Could you please help me check it?
>
> I can't reproduce this on MacOS X or RHEL 5 using bash-4.2 and bash-4.3.
> You might try running your script using `valgrind' and seeing what that
> tells you.
>
> Chet
>
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