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> > Yes. It's called a "memory leak".
> Small penuts. Miami and YAM would pull my wife's A2000 8meg system down to
> about 2.3 megs after running all day. I replaced it with a 16meg A3000, and
> now she never gets under 11 megs no matter how long she leaves it. If you're
> running Miami with MUI gui, it is more probably the culpret. If I run either
> MDII or YAM with termite, it uses less memory and memory consumption (leak)
> is less, but Termite/TCP sucks, and causes me other problems. I've heard
> running Miami with the GadTools GUI lessens its memory use. I almost always
> run first YAM then MDII, so I don't know which causes the problem, but I
> suspect YAM and Miami, because my wife seldom runs MDII. I have 128megs of
> fast, so I really don't notice much of a problem. It also seems to be worse
> on low memory machines, even 16megs made all the difference for my wife.
Don't dismiss memory leaks so easily. It's fine for a program to use a lot
of RAM. However, if a program allocates the RAM and forgets to deallocate
it, that points at a fairly serious bug. The equivalent opposite bug
(deallocating without allocating) is bad enough to cause a guru on the
spot.
Matthew
--
April brings the sweet spring showers - on and on for hours and hours.
Farmers fear unkindly May - "Frost by night and hail by day.
June just rains and never stops - thirty days, and spoils the crops".
-- Flanders and Swann
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