This is correct. OP os mistaken.
Sir, it is a leak, the memory is no longer being referenced. This is not up for debate, this has been proven and we’re waiting on Blizzard to pick this up.
Also please read comments and explanations rather than posting to flame random forumers on your 3 post sockpuppet.
Who the hell is this imposter?
Keeping the thread active as the PSA is still necessary half a year later.
Except I didnt flame you I just disagreed with your assessment. You are quite sensitive. Also this isnt a sock puppet.
They also don’t have mass buttons for everything, even creating stuff is time gated.
I have to hit huge number of crafts then go afk while it bot makes them. Let me tell you how immersive this is.
Some people are loco, like i am. Just got me 'nother 32gb atfer i’ve made the PC with my 32GB installed, and i got money, cause why not?.. 
It is not up for debate on this being a leak. If you had read the thread or tested the issue extensively you’d know this.
There is no valid reason for the existence of your above comment other than to flame troll. You do not get the backpedal free pass here.
4 hours of crafting seriously ,you’re that desperate to level up fast? Or something else?
I’m just an AH goblin. 
That explain it then your choice.
Still leaks in 10.1.7
Sounds like an addon issue. Most normal players would never have the UI open for hours at a time, without afking and being autologged off. So it sounds like you’re probably using a lot of addons for gold grinding, one of them is likely the culprit.
Do a full UI reset and see if the issue persists:
That’s a hell of a necro… did anyone else read the title and imagine a puddle of RAM under their PC? 
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It’s like this without addons on fresh installs in empty zones.
It’s been seen on multiple GPUs from various vendors (AMD and Nvidia and Intel).
It’s been seen on Win10 and Win11.
People have literally debugged it to the crafting ui code itself.
It’s been experimentally reduced to a code bug blizzard has in the ui code that’s been left to sit for a year now.
It’s apparently a common topic to necro rofl. Scroll up a bit. It’ll die for a bit then someone will necro.
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It’s me keeping tabs on the lack of fixing it every few months.
Fun fact, if you equip a chef’s hat, you leak RAM even faster when cooking, because it’s a per-craft leak.
Are we sure it’s a memory leak? Maybe blizzard is trying to implement a reality check
A GB/hour memory leak means you’re leaking 17MB/min, which is 291KB/sec. Even if you were storing everything in double long(8 bytes), you’d need to be memory leaking ~37,283 of those values per second. Seems extremely unlikely, but not impossible if you’ve got some bad loop or array in there(that would be roughly 200x200).
They had a similar leak with the transmog window where you could flood your vram->ram in a minute of flipping through the pages, but they fixed that within a day or two. People were hard crashing due to being OoM and pagefile.
Maybe you’ve got advanced combat logging turned on or something weird like that, or maybe it’s just a system environment issue with an antivirus or other security measures that limit and regulate apps playing with memory(memory integrity/hypervisor/etc).
I’d have to do some digging around, but it doesn’t seem like a big enough issue to bother since it wouldn’t affect players playing in a normal, non-degenerate way.
That’s not at all how leaked RAM works. If RAM is actually leaked, it can’t be freed up without rebooting your PC. Leaked RAM is unusable.