ubuntu jaunty seized up

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:42 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:24 -0700, prad wrote:
> > 
> A memory leak is where a program continues to allocate memory without
> returning unused memory back to the system.  The symptoms will be a
> continuous increase in the size of the program.  A simple program with a
> memory leak would be something like:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> # Array grows without bound (slowly)
> 
> my @x = ();
> 
> my $i = 0;
> 
> while (1) {
> 	sleep 1;
> 	$x[$i] = $i;
> }
> 

Oops.  Forgot to increment $i.  Should be:

$x[$i] = $i++;

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