Re: alias and memory leak
Re: alias and memory leak
- Subject: Re: alias and memory leak
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:39:25 -0600
At 16:28 -0600 18/02/01, Victor Yee wrote:
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I can see why memory leaks are generally not a concern; I wasn't concerned
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until recently. But when I started working out a stay-open framework and
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experienced problems... it was a bit of a shock to realise that some of my
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previous scripting habits were unstable in such a way. In any case, it's
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something to learn from.
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Sigh... just when I thought that I was getting somewhere.
I would not be that desperate. We do work (on a rather large scale) in a
stay-open framework, and we have no trouble with it. Latest big piece of
trouble was 8.1's Finder, which desperately needed to be quit rather
regularly.
But of course we need specific testing. Depending on the circumstances, on
the available RAM and on other things, we use, either MWZoneRanger, or the
"Check Memory" tool of Smile. MWZoneRanger is far more informative (in
particular, you can read the contents of the faulty memory chunk, which may
help retrieving the origin of the leak very fast), "Check Memory" is easier
(and it does not crash) (I mean: ZoneRanger may crash).
HTH
Emmanuel