I am seeing a major memory leak on a simple laptop i7 10th gen where the
system exhausts memory and wedges to a point where it must be recovered
with a power cycle, despite having physically 16GB RAM. With 8GB zram
swap and 16GB disk (SSD) swap for a total of 24GB, that only delays
memory exhaustion.

The problem manifests with kernel 6.8.0-78 on Ubuntu 24.04, but
reverting to 6.8.0-71 fixes it. Using -71, there is effectively no
memory stress in normal operation:

# uptime ; free
 16:59:45 up  4:38,  1 user,  load average: 0.77, 0.70, 0.79
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        16036848     9602476      357320     3906440     9568068     6434372
Swap:       24795128        5120    24790008

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