[bug #27184] Memory leak in procfs

[Carl Fredrik Hammar]

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                 Summary: Memory leak in procfs
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: hammy
            Submitted on: Wed 05 Aug 2009 09:27:23 PM CEST
                Category: Hurd Servers
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: None
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                  Effort: 0.00
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Details:

Ironically `free' triggers a memory leak in `procfs', which uses
~0.5 megs more memory each time `free' is run.  Seeing one's memory
filling up on every `free' can be quite nerve wracking.





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