Alex Martelli wrote:
>
> Considering that the main purpose is adding regression tests to confirm
> that a hopefully-fixed memory leak does not recur, I'm not sure why
> shared memory should be a problem.  What scenarios would "leak shared
> memory"?

Apache leaks SHM segments in some scenarios.  SysV SHM segments aren't
freed explicitly when the process exits.  They're easy enough to clean
up by hand, but it's nicer to avoid that.

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