Hello Marten, Thursday, May 20, 2004, 1:10:28 PM, you wrote: Marten> Please - What's a memory leak? What does it look like? And Marten> should I be worried?
If you see a puddle forming around the base of your computer then you've got one! <grin> Just kidding. Basically a memory leak means that a program grabs resources (like memory) and once it's done doing what it needed to do with the resource, it fails to free it up for other things to use it. Further, the same program that took the resource in the first place may "forget" that it set aside that resource for its own use and take another piece of the resources. If this were to continue, it would mean that at some point in time it will have grabbed all the available resources and things start to crash because there are no resources left for anything to use. Really the only way to recover from a memory leak (aside from the programmers fixing the bug) is to first, try and close the offending application and hope Windows recovers the resources, or two, restart your computer if the first doesn't work. -- Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 2.11 Beta/6 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
