Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:33:27 -0600

Hello All,

Heard this on the WRS mail list this morning (all unsubstantiated
rumors must be spread of course)

>> 
>> I run telnet a few times and execute the memShow command. I see that
>> the memory is slowly decreasing. I see that some is recovered from
>> time to time but not all. Is this a known problem? Is there a config-
>> uration step that I missed when setting up my system.
>
> There is a memory leak when you issue the logout command.  We noticed
this
> because after may telnet login and logouts we ran out of memory.  I
talked
> to WindRiver technical support and they acknowledged the problem.  A
> workaround was to logout using the sp command.  I created my own symbol
to
> call sp with logout as a parameter.  The memory leak is caused because
the
> logout command exits the shell parser abnormally leaving memory
allocated. 
> By spawning the logout command the shell parser can free it allocated
memory

Jeff
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