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Re: Bug#245678: zsh: built-in rm -rf fills up the memory

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Bug#245678: zsh: built-in rm -rf fills up the memory
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Looks like a rewrite of hrealloc is definitely in order...

Just the MMAP part.  Though we might consider increasing HEAP_ARENA_SIZE;
16K isn't much on modern machinery.

> Does the bad behaviour go away if USE_MMAP is undefined?

Examination of the code suggests so, as does Clint's test result.

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- Re: Bug#245678: zsh: built-in rm -rf fills up the memory
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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