Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:53:34 12/27/98
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On December 26, 1998 at 23:58:26, Komputer Korner wrote: >On December 24, 1998 at 09:42:11, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On December 24, 1998 at 03:22:36, Komputer Korner wrote: >>>in WIN 95 without CB7 running I had 93% system resources free. After running CB >>>7 it went down to 76%. After closing CB 7 it went back to only 89%, so a clear >>>memory leak. >>>-- >>>Komputer Korner >> >>KK, >> >>That is one of my pet peeve's. It takes a day or two (no big deal) to clean up >>code so that it doesn't have memory leaks. A memory leak is a bug like any other >>bug, it just happens to affect your overall system as opposed to the product >>itself. >> >>Do you happen to have any statistics on which chess programs, databases, >>training tools, etc. have or do not have memory leaks? >> >>It would be good for everyone to know this. Especially for those people running >>chess programs in tournaments or across the net (e.g. I went looking into CB7 >>for something just before the tournament, forgot to reboot, and my program's >>hash table wasn't as large because of it). >> >>Happy Holidays, >> >>KarinsDad > >good idea. I am too busy writing an article on CA 4 right now but if everybody >would do a test on their favourite chess program we should get answers. >-- >Komputer Korner You are looking in the wrong place for this "leak". If a program exits, and resources are not freed up, it is _not_ the program that is at fault, it is the underlying operating system that is screwed up. Because once a process exits, it is up to the operating system to release memory allocated by the process. I know of no way for a user program to cause such a problem unless the operating system is hosed. IE this can't happen under linux unless a bug in the linux kernel shows up... and we don't have many of those thankfully...
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