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I didn't realize how much discussion my problem would generate. This all started when I found a huge memory leak in SecureCRT, a Windows ssh client. VanDyke Software is aware of it and is looking into it. The leak occured when I was in the middle of running a process that takes days to complete and generates a lot of informational output. Today, I was looking at my terminal session and Windows brought up a warning that I was low on virtual memory. Looking at the Task Manager, I saw that SecureCRT was consuming up over 550 MB!! I almost fell off my chair. VanDyke really makes great software so this was just an oversight but a big one. In fact, they responded to my bug report within an hour which speaks miles of them unlike the idiotic non-support from most vendors. So, I could have stopped the process which would have meant having to run it again for a few days or come up with a temporary solution. I chose the latter. Unfortunately, I lost my output which made it impossible to know if the process encountered any errors but it worked and the process actually completed a little while ago. In the future, I'm going to just redirect to a file when I start the program, put it in the background and just "tail -f" the log file. At the very least, this discussion has been interesting and has shown that we have a lot of technical expertise in our group! Robert
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