Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:43:07 03/29/02
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On March 29, 2002 at 10:08:46, Slater Wold wrote: >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. What operating system are you using, that this is happening on? When you close a program in any reasonable OS, its memory should be freed no matter what. Maybe your programs are leaving threads running (i.e., not really closing). The other option is that the programs are creating OS stuff (e.g., windows) that are somehow not being freed, but in my experience, this is very rare. Besides, the memory taken up by windows and cursors and icons and whatnot is pretty trivial compared to the gigs of RAM people have nowadays. -Tom
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