Comment 114 for bug 1572801

I see a lot of chatter that is likely confusion related to the leak manifestations, and the false belief that eliminating X or Y memory consumer "fixed" the problem. The proper test is probably to leave a computer running, idle for 24-48 hours; if you begin swapping and running out of RAM while taking no action, you are still afflicted. Anyone who has not done that will not know if the issue is fixed.

As this leads to swap thrashing for anyone who leaves their computer running (which is many people), this software bug is leading to real-dollar hardware damage (as write spam kills flash memory drives).