My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB) (lists.gnu.org)
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aexaey Oct 9, 2015 | on: Recovering Live Data with GDB | context

That was an excellent story. Was discussed here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305283

ars Oct 14, 2016 | on: Show HN: Flexible C memory allocation scheme with leak… | context

> If an open source library has memory allocated at finish, to me that's a warning to find a different project.

You need to read this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305283

Basically it's faster to simply exit and not try to walk datastructures deallocating everything.