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Comment on AMD-driver zombie-process leak consumes GB of memory

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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.

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