nmap 5 memory usage

[Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis () gmx net>]

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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