Author: Slater Wold
Date: 07:08:46 03/29/02
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On March 29, 2002 at 09:27:49, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >>If you have a memory leak (best way to tell is to check resources, open program, >>use program, close program, and then check resources) your system performance is >>of course going to degrade *very* fast. (CM used to have a pretty bad leak.) > > >Would you please elaborate on this. I don"t understand what you mean, or the >operating principle. >Thanks >Wayne When I start Fritz 6, it takes X amount of memory. When I close Fritz 6, it should release ALL X of that memory. (If it takes 270MB of RAM to run, it should release 270MB of RAM upon closing.) *SOME* programs have bugs where they don't/won't release that memory. And that can cause your computer to run like a 486 *very* quickly. That's why *most* people say their computers run like crap after being up for a week or so. Because when they originally turned on their computer, they had > 95% of their system resources available. However, because of memory leaks, after 7 days of being up, they now have < 80%. That's like taking 20% of your RAM out of your computer. That is going to slow you down.
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