Memory Leaks...

MonkeyMaster · 31st Jan 2006, 06:29 AM

Ok being new to this forum I could really use some help understanding memory leaks, what causes them and what kind of software you use to fix them? Can anyone shed a little light on this for me? Thanks.

Nathan

acedriver · 31st Jan 2006, 07:19 AM

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Leak

hyper_raider · 31st Jan 2006, 07:28 AM

You can't really fix memory leaks unless you look at the code yourself and fix it.

fyire · 31st Jan 2006, 11:19 AM

In most cases, what you can do to fix memory leaks is just to restart the application that's the culprit. The majority of bittorrent clients tend to have this problem. Other than that, its like what hyper_raider sez, out of luck unless u have access to the code to fix it up.

proper memory allocation and deallocation has been one of the most basic things learnt and drilled into the heads of students doing Computer Science, but its still a pretty common mistake to make. The general thought is that languages that does dynamic allocation for you such as Java is completely free of such problems, but that is not the case too (reduced, but not complete free; check out Bruce Tate's Bitter Java, there's a chapter in the book on how memory leaks can happen in Java as well, and how to avoid them)

hyper_raider · 31st Jan 2006, 03:22 PM

Oh and if its a game you are talking about i would wait for a patch or something like that.

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hyper_raider shutdown -h now Join Date: 15 Aug 2003 Location: in front of my pc Posts: 6,002 Reputation: 1078 Rep Power: 22	Oh and if its a game you are talking about i would wait for a patch or something like that. __________________ "God does not play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) http://edward-lim.blogspot.com

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fyire I'm a regular Join Date: 15 Jan 2004 Location: Somewhere out there Posts: 350 Reputation: 15 Rep Power: 5	In most cases, what you can do to fix memory leaks is just to restart the application that's the culprit. The majority of bittorrent clients tend to have this problem. Other than that, its like what hyper_raider sez, out of luck unless u have access to the code to fix it up. proper memory allocation and deallocation has been one of the most basic things learnt and drilled into the heads of students doing Computer Science, but its still a pretty common mistake to make. The general thought is that languages that does dynamic allocation for you such as Java is completely free of such problems, but that is not the case too (reduced, but not complete free; check out Bruce Tate's Bitter Java, there's a chapter in the book on how memory leaks can happen in Java as well, and how to avoid them)