Lets assume for a moment that we really have a memory leak in 'apt-get source'
- which is not unlikely, but are properly not big enough to be noticed… - this
memory leak only exists while 'apt-get source' is running, the kernel will free
all memory requested by any application at the end of its execution. So if you
run apt-get one time or a thousand times in a row doesn't make a difference in
memory wasted in a leak: It will be always zero at the end. So are you sure
it's not something else easting your memory? Are you downloading the packages
e.g. to a tmpfs? And do you consider that all the output you see in a console
is stored in memory, too?
(marking as invalid for now)
Beside that you are downloading the sources again and again for all
binary packages - for libreoffice this could mean that you are
downloading 655 MB 165 times (~ 108 GB). You could avoid that and a
bunch of other problems by using only one APT call as you can provide
more than one packagename…
But after all, 'apt-get source' doesn't sound like the right tool for
this task to begin with… debmirror sounds a lot better.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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