Memory leaks in msf3

[mmiller at hick.org (mmiller at hick.org)]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:56:53PM +0000, nnp wrote:
> Hey,
> When running msf3 using db_nmap or db_autopwn with large inputs has
> anyone else gotten out of memory errors? I don't know ruby so I have
> no idea what the story with garbage collection and memory leaks is but
> here is the error.

Thanks for the report.  I imagine there are some changes we could make
that would help reduce the memory load.  I'm guessing we have some
lingering references that the garbage collector isn't able to cleanup
because it thinks they're still live.  We'll add this to the list of
things to look into.