[Bug 1291373] [NEW] wget. memory leaks

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Public bug reported:

Wget eats RAM when downloading big website. To reproduce run these on slow internet connection:
bash$ wget -r -k -p -l inf -U 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' 'http://bigwebsite.com/' 2> stderr.txt
After one ~6 hours wget eats 1.5 GiB of RAM.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: wget 1.13.4-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-36.52~precise1-generic 3.8.13.14
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 12 15:29:05 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: wget
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: wget (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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Title:
  wget. memory leaks

Status in “wget” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Wget eats RAM when downloading big website. To reproduce run these on slow internet connection:
  bash$ wget -r -k -p -l inf -U 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' 'http://bigwebsite.com/' 2> stderr.txt
  After one ~6 hours wget eats 1.5 GiB of RAM.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: wget 1.13.4-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-36.52~precise1-generic 3.8.13.14
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Mar 12 15:29:05 2014
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: wget
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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