netstat in RHEL has a memory leak when run with -c option
Issue
- netstat has a memory leak when run with -c option
- We had user run this for 4 days and it grew to over 8 Gig on a 64 bit box. Caused OOM and the box rebooted.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions)
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