DragonFlyBSD 4.0.2 Fixes A Major Kernel Memory Leak

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DragonFlyBSD 4.0.2 Fixes A Major Kernel Memory Leak

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 10 January 2015 at 09:14 AM EST. 17 Comments

DragonFlyBSD 4.0 was released back in November with a variety of improvements while today the v4.0.2 point release is out to take care of some issues.

Perhaps most notable about DragonFlyBSD 4.0.2 is that it fixes a "major (pageable) memory leak" that can be easy to reproduce under certain conditions, as outlined by this commit. There's also been a variety of other fixes and kernel work since the earlier 4.0 debut.

This popular BSD operating system can be downloaded at DragonFlyBSD.org.

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