On Wed, 31 May 2000 14:08:12 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000 21:01:27 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes - I use 1.61 and it still leaks. I sent a message a week or two
>> ago listing a couple of sites that would reliably leak with 1.61.
>
> I didn't see it, Ron. What reliably leaks for me doesn't on some
> other systems. Maybe you can shoot out the URLs again and see if they
> leak for me.
>
Sorry you missed it, L.D.! For you and anyone else who'd like to try
getting a leak, here are the two procedures that I suggested:
1. Start Arachne V1.61. DOS memory reported: 143+ (blue)
2. Dial. When connected, DOS memory reported: 74+ (blue)
3. Press 'M' for mail page. DOS memory reported: 74+ (blue)
4. Go to http://www.web-sites.co.uk/nasm DOS memory reported: 53+
5. Press 'M' for mail page. DOS memory reported: 53+ (blue)
True - this doesn't actually cause a crash - well not immediately,
anyway, and it doesn't give the '35!!!' in red that I HAVE seen. But why
does the memory not recover from 53+ to 74+ when returning from the NASM
page to the mail page?
I've found another site that seems to do it better AND I think that
I've discovered something else that exacerbates it.
Initial conditions as per last message, i.e., on-line and 74K+
showing in green (corrected eyesight, Clarence!!).
Now go to this long addrerss:
http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/TANC/Bookmarks/Information.html
Seemed slow to load (may have been time of day: morning rush-hour),
but checking info panel showed DOS memory down to 54+ (green). Because
I was impatient to see what the whole page was, I pressed the END key
to go down to the bottom. Checked memory: 45!!! (red). Pressed the HOME
key to go back to the top: 44!!! (red). Pressed END: 43!!! (red).
And so on...
So whatever causes the memory leak in the page is apparently made
worse just by moving about through the page with HOME and END.
One final thing: before the memory figure turned red, I could do
L.D.'s trick of Alt+E then EXIT to get back to 74+ (green). Once the
figure had turned red, the trick wouldn't restore the value, even when
going back off-line and going to my initial Mail page, which usually
gives 142+ in green.
All the best,
Ron.
