On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:57:29 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > As I can reproduce the issue, I tried it myself, and my results are as > follows: > bash 3.0.16: Memory consumption (RSS) is steady > bash 3.1.14: Memory consumption (RSS) increases > bash 4.2.53: Memory consumption (RSS) increases > bash 4.3.30: Memory consumption (RSS) increases > > So apparently this is a regression introduced in bash 3.1 and not fixed > yet. I have created a ticket to track this issue: http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2391 After discussing the issue with upstream bash maintainer Chet Ramey, this is not a memory leak and works as intended, even though this behavior is undesirable in the case of the fancontrol script. Taz, feel free to try the following experimental patch for the time being, I believe it should solve the increasing memory consumption issue: --- prog/pwm/fancontrol | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- lm-sensors.orig/prog/pwm/fancontrol 2014-11-05 22:59:21.823226428 +0100 +++ lm-sensors/prog/pwm/fancontrol 2014-11-07 09:52:14.178257104 +0100 @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ function UpdateFanSpeeds echo $minsa > $pwmo # Sleep while still handling signals sleep 1 & - wait $! + wait fi fi echo $pwmval > $pwmo # write new value to pwm output @@ -585,5 +585,5 @@ do UpdateFanSpeeds # Sleep while still handling signals sleep $INTERVAL & - wait $! + wait done -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
