A memory leak at a rate of a GB/s would quickly exhaust all system memory and trigger the OOM killer. If the memory is being allocated in very small quantities then it may swap for a while, but the system will recover in due order.
Which is why, independent of whether we should be setting resource limits, I think "blah" has some other problem on his system than just a memory leak. -- Please set memory limits by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
