[tor-bugs] #12669 [Tor]: Tor 0.2.4.22 memory leak (again)

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#12669: Tor 0.2.4.22 memory leak (again)
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     Reporter:  BeagleBone  |      Owner:  Me
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal      |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
    Component:  Tor         |    Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.22
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:  memory leek
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Comment (by arma):

 Re "leaks", if they are actually leaks, you should be able to find them in
 valgrind and then we'll fix them.

 But alas, they're unlikely to be leaks -- they're probably memory
 fragmentation bugs, where the memory is still actually in use, but the
 total number of pages used by Tor grows over time since glibc is bad at
 giving freed memory back to the system. There have been a bunch of tickets
 of this sort over the years.

 A fast Tor relay will generally grow to about 1gig of ram use over time.

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