top memory usage grows after running a few days

Bug #828869 reported by Vincent Stehlé
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #743350: top appears to leak memory. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

'top' memory usage grows after running a few days (virtual memory more than 1G), biggest consumer on my PC, which made me notice.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: procps 1:3.2.8-10ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-server 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-server x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 18 17:57:00 2011
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: procps
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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