Why is korn shell or ksh consuming high memory?

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Issue

  • The moment Korn shell (ksh) process is started it consumes around 1GB of memory.
26851 root      16   0 1087m 1.0g 1024 S    0  2.3   0:03.06 ksh

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All versions)

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