re: Possible Kernel Memory Leak in 2.0.28

Adam D. Moss (adam@uunet.pipex.com)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:46:46 GMT

>From: BrianR <brianr@torgo.ml.org>
>Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:09:27 -0500
>Subject: Possible Kernel Memory Leak in 2.0.28
>
>Anyone else experience a _permenant_ depletion of memory after loading
>several large files in the gimp? Here's how I reproduce the problem.
...

GIMP (being pre-version-1 software) is kinda buggy; it actually sometimes
leaves behind anonymous shared memory areas, which you'll see if
you use the 'ipcs' command.

The rmshm.linux program than comes with GIMP will de-allocate these -
this ISN'T a kernel bug.

Cheers,
--Adam

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