lpenz:

Hi

I made a program that detects user presence in a linux box by checking for keyboard interruptions in /proc/interrupts.

Problem is, it is supposed to run for a long time, and it keeps about 40MB for itself.

Yeah, this is one more "help me with this memory problem" mails...

The code can be found in http://hpaste.org/1907, and in "darcs get http://lpenz.50webs.com/idlelog

I guess I'm having some conceptual problem.

I'd seriously consider using Data.ByteString instead of [Char] string for your IO. -- Don