Hello Matthew,
On 14-Oct-99, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
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>>> Yes. It's called a "memory leak".
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Matthew
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The fact that I upgraded from a dead-end 8meg A2000 (a dkb 2632 would not work
on it and I had to return it) to a 16meg A3000 shows I was taking this
seriously. I meant that he was lucky it was only 512k when I was loosing 3
to 4 megs. Also, YAM is worse than Microdot at this, though I still suspect
Miami has a role in it. All in all it can definitely be a serious problem,
and what I was also trying to point out, is the less ram you run with, the
bigger problem it is. I have an A3000 which currently has 1 and 1 meg for
chip and fast, imagine what that kind of a memory leak (even 512k) would do
to it? And even with 9megs or 16, this kind of memory leak will require
rebooting at least occasionally, which he is trying to avoid. Again, I was
NOT dismissing memory leaks, but trying to incicate what a problem they had
been to my wife on her A2000. Going to 16megs did not cut down on the memory
leaks either, it just mede them less of a problem because she has more ram
left in a bigger block.
Regards,
--
Mike Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] + team Amiga +
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