> Is the VM leak fixed in 1.2?  This one's really starting to annoy me.

You can "solve" this problem by getting more RAM and never using any swap.
Of course, then you may be hit by the bounce-buffer-lack problem, which
hasn't been fixed, either...  But perhaps you're lucky enough not to be
bitten by the serial port problem, which won't be fixed by 1.2... ;-) :-(

  -jm