On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:58:59AM +0100, Michel Arboi wrote:

> I hear that with each release of Nmap. 

There wasn't any significant attemtp to minimize memory usage during
last two years IIRC besides minor cosmetic and mostly irrelevant
changes. Who has told you otherwise?

> One single Nmap 3.94 process nearly crashed my old laptop by eating
> more than 400 MB on a class B scan. 

Yes, I had almost the same experience. But the 'diet' change was made
after 3.94 release. Have you tried 3.95?

Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant
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