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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:12:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: [bash or DLL] Memory leak in childs
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Hello,

Thank you very much for your feedback !
I come back to the first point, memory leak when bash forks (seen in
example loops).

Following your advice and BLODA documentation, I made tests in a fresh
/ newly installed virtual environment (Windows XP / VirtualBox).
I did not notice any problem at all.
So I decided to run tests booting my suffering environment in safe
mode (F8 at boot time, then safe mode).
Once again, no problem at all.

So yes, memory leak is due to background programs which interfer with the OS.

Unfortunately, it is sometime not possible to find out which component
is responsible, and to clean it (production environment,
customers...).
So, my next question is, do you have any advice to avoid or limit memory leak ?
- specific bash scripting method / tips ;
- program to call to free memory ;
- another method to fork that would avoid memory leak (patched DLL,
wrokaround...) ;
- ... ?

Thank you very much !

Best regards,

Benjamin

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