This is fixed in Karmic. usb-creator no longer tells dd to read the
entire persistence file into memory before writing it.
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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memory leak when creating big read-write partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386821
I can confirm the same issue. I created a USB stick with a 700MB
persistence file. I was creating a USB stick using the
ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso file. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and my usb-
creator package is version 0.1.16
My system also got quite slow, and I could hear a lot of swapping going
