What's a space leak?

Question

I found the haskell wiki page on space leaks, which claims to list examples of real-world leaks, which it doesn\'t. It doesn\'t really say what a space leak is; it just link

Answer 1

A space leak occurs when a computer program uses more memory than necessary. In contrast to memory leaks, where the leaked memory is never released, the memory consumed by a space leak is released, but later than expected. * Source