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memory leak

type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations
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memory leak

Summary

memory leak ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (188 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • memory leak's subclass of is recorded as resource leak[2].
  • memory leak's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04yqh[3].
  • memory leak's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/memory-leaks[4].
  • memory leak's has effect is recorded as unreachable memory[5].
  • memory leak's CWE ID is recorded as 401[6].
  • memory leak's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 156731835[7].
  • memory leak's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C156731835[8].

Why It Matters

memory leak ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (188 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . cwe.mitre.org. cwe.mitre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_memory-leak_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{memory leak}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/memory-leak}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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