[ nedit-Bugs-1906837 ] long list creation

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Bugs item #1906837, was opened at 2008-03-04 01:24
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: long list creation

Initial Comment:
Hi

Creation of long strings can completely hang the system. The cause for the hanging is described as follows.

In the following simple macro

string = ""
for(i=0; i<N ; i++)
   string = string "\n" i

each iteration eats memory since new string is created
and old one is also kept in memory.

When all memory is occupied a system completely hangs.

When fast-access memory (non-swap) is fully occupied,
work is strongly slowed-down,  CPU usage drops to 1-10%.

Memory is not freed when macro is completed, as a result, the system goes in a "somnambular state". X-server restarting does not help in this case.

This bug is independent of NEdit's version.

Alexey Kuznetsov


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