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svn was running for a while checking out some source code and the memory it used kept growing, it got up to 213MiB: john@bistromath ~ $ ps u -C svn USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND john 840 17.8 20.4 219024 211800 pts/5 S+ 00:17 50:30 svn co https://
A memory leak occurs when a program uses up memory and doesn't give it back (release it) when it *doesn't need it any more*. Using memory when it's needed for the program to run is not a memory leak. Please, clarify your problem.
Yes, I know, I suspect that it doesn't need all taht memory and I will investigate further
