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 on. I discovered that dd was consuming 700MB of RAM. I've attached my ".usb-creator.log" as "usb-creator-daryl.log". The most interesting lines follow. It looks like dd is being told to write 1 single block which is 700MB in size. ['dd', 'if=/dev/zero', 'bs=734792948', 'of=/media/disk/casper-rw', 'count=1'] 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 734792948 bytes (735 MB) copied, 542.742 s, 1.4 MB/s ** Attachment added: "usb-creator-daryl.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30620476/usb-creator-daryl.log ** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- memory leak when creating big read-write partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386821 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
