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 -- 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