Memory leak will stay until you the application exits. I would assume it would also be swapped to disk because OS doesn't know what the application has done with it. If a leak happens in a function that doesn't get called very often, it is usually not too bad but if it happens in a loop, you definitely want to fix it.
-- Best regards, Jack Thursday, March 1, 2007, 6:01:40 PM, you wrote: > Hi. > I used today a tool to check my app for memory leaks. > I've found 2 in my code and other 20-30 more in Delphi's code (Delphi 7.1). > They are not so big. The biggest is 4096 in System.pas. Should I close > my eyes and go on. > I mean the leaking in pretty small. > There is a second question: what happen with a leaking? It is that piece > of memory stored to the swap file or it stays forever in memory? > I know that Window 'downloads' the applications that are not used for a > while to swap to make some room in RAM. > Will be the leaked memory moved to swap also? In this case not even a > big leaking will be too harmful for the system's performances. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
