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Re: [winlib] Possible Massive Resource Leak in 0.57.6

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 26, 2002
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On 26 May 2002, at 11:44, pampeano at rocketmail.com wrote:

> 
> Hi Travis,
>    I have Win ME so i replicated your bug. It doesn't seems to me to be
> a memory bug but a processor one.. I've a program that shows memory
> info and it's didn't show an increment, but i heard my disk reading as
> hell and i think that my processor was to loaded because all what i
> tried to do was slow... Finally after ctrl+alt+del and closing the app
> everything came back to normallity...
> It's a bug.. but i don't think that's memory related..

That's memory related. The disk thrashing was the virtual memory 
manager using the harddrive because ram was full.

Kat

 
> Best Regards,
>    Guillermo Bonvehi
> 
> --- Travis Beaty <travis_beaty at mcleodusa.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello All!
> > 
> > I believe that I have found a massive resource leak in -- one that I 
> > thought that Derek had fixed in version (and probably that he thought
> > he 
> > fixed too  ).  The only thing is that I would like to get
> > confirmation 
> > of it from someone else.  The pickle here is that it has been found
> > not to 
> > occur on XP, whose memory resource works are apparently much
> > different than 
> > Windows ME, which I happen to be using.
> > 
> > So, I am hoping I could get someone with Windows ME to confirm this 
> > problem.  To do that, you'll need the following:
> > 
> > 1.  winlib32 version 0.57.6
> > 2.  My "ruler.zip" file (found in the Euphoria archives)
> > 3.  Windows ME
> > 4.  Be VERY prepared to reboot after you do this!!
> > 
> > Unzip the ruler file, and execute play.exw.  Take the ruler out of
> > its 
> > holder, then right-click and select "Span across screen."  At this
> > point on 
> > my machine, the memory leak really begins to show up.  I've been
> > using 
> > System Resources to observe this.  With 293M of memory, it takes me
> > about 
> > 15 seconds to bottom out.
> > 
> > If someone could confirm this for me, it would be appreciated.  I
> > don't 
> > want to waste Derek's time.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Travis Beaty
> > Evans, Colorado.
> 
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