> I was doing a conversion from an .rtf file to a .txt file when Abi Word,
> started to drink memory like a man who had just come out of the desert.
Hahaha... a nice analogy. :) AbiWord hasn't undergone much profiling
for memory management; it's something we just haven't had time to
do yet. If you could send a copy of the file (or any similar file
that evokes similar behavior), we might be able to track down
the excessive malloc()s.
-- Shaw Terwilliger