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Subject: memory leak?
From: Steve Elkins <sgelkins@bellsouth.net>
Date: 05 Oct 2002 06:31:18 -0400
Organization: WEBUSENET.com
I love scsh, but I may have a problem with it.

I say this because simply starting scsh in an xterm...

  sge:2$ scsh 
  Welcome to scsh 0.6.2 (Gambit-C 4.0)
  Type ,? for help.
  > 

...gets me a process that grows relentlessly, 4K at a time.  The one
I'm running now has grown over 100K in < 5 minutes without my typing a
single character into the REPL, just let it sit there.  Of course this
isn't important for the short-lived scripts I've written so far, but
I'm hoping to use it for some more daemonish things in the future.

[...runs off and installs scheme48...]

  sge:19$ scheme48 
  Welcome to Scheme 48 0.57 (made by root on Sat Oct  5 06:10:50 EDT 2002).
  Copyright (c) 1993-2001 by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees.
  Please report bugs to scheme-48-bugs@martigny.ai.mit.edu.
  Type ,? (comma question-mark) for help.
  > 

Well, scheme48 doesn't grow at all when I leave it alone.

Presumably other people do use scsh for long-running tasks, so maybe
it has something to do with running it on OpenBSD 3.0/3.1.  Is anyone
else running it on OpenBSD and if so, does scsh behave this way for
you?  Does anyone see leakage on another OS?

Thanks,
Steve


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