re: lib/51572: curses memory leak(s) appearing in systat

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/51572; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, scole_mail%gmx.com@localhost
Subject: re: lib/51572: curses memory leak(s) appearing in systat
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 08:00:26 +1100

 >  On 11/29 10:15, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > Could it be pulled up to -7-0 too?
 >  
 >  Doesn't meet the criteria for netbsd-7-0 (security/critical only), but
 >  this is certainly a good candidate for netbsd-7.
 
 if this is the reason mtr has a massive memory leak then i would
 perhaps argue that it *is* important enough.
 
 i left mtr running overnight and it leaked so much it eventually
 used over 30GB of VA and triggered my X server being killed, so
 it was a pretty severe end result -- it could be sshd or postfix
 or something else killed on a server, with less obviousness.
 
 i'll try to see if this is the problem with mtr itself.
 
 
 .mrg.