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AMD-driver zombie-process leak consumes GB of memory

7 points| brucedawson | 1 year ago |yngve.vivaldi.net

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brucedawson|1 year ago

Some AMD drivers leak handles to every process created. On a build system that creates tens of thousands of process this leaks tens of thousands of process handles with each one creating a zombie process and wasting about 64 KB. This leak can consume all RAM on a powerful workstation in just a few days.