OK, circling back on this. For testing, I've found that https://cloudsafe.com/ gives free 2GB webdav accounts for use. Once your account is set up, you can reproduce a climbing VIRT count in top by doing the following:
gvfs-mount davs://XXX.webdav.cloudsafe.com/ while true; do gvfs-copy YYY davs://XXX.webdav.cloudsafe.com/; done Looking further. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606292 Title: WebDAV backend leaks a lot of memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/606292/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
