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From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis () gmx net>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:15:39 +0200 (EET)

Hello nmap hackers,

I just run latest nmap on an old PC with 128MB RAM and a few other programs running. The system slowed down significantly and started swapping like crazy.

I'm just reporting it here because it seems that system requirements have been significantly raised without anyone noticing (if this is intentional please just ignore me). By pmap'ing the process I got about 70MB of anonymous memory mappings. My command line was as simple as 'nmap -A $IPADDR'. What do you think?

Thanks in advance, Dimitris

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