New mac vm memory leak ?

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Tue Jun 13 12:45:33 UTC 2000



John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> on 6/12/00 10:17 AM, Karl Ramberg at karl.ramberg at chello.se wrote:
> 
> > I find my self running out of memory on the computer again and again
> > the latest two or three days. Could it be some sockets that don't shut
> > down and then open in another memory space ? I'v been testing (opening and
> > quiting
> > different apps after eachother) but everything seems to behave proprerly.
> >
> > I use Netscape though, it hogs and destroys, but I haven't had any trouble
> > in many months whit this kind of problem.
> >
> >
> > I'm on a 8500/ 150 mz 136 megabyte memory. Mac OS 8.6
> > Squeak VM 2.8beta4 given 35 megabyte memory.
> > Netscape 4.7.1 I think given 27 megabytes.
> >
> > Four houres ago mac os run at 72 megabytes.
> > After a restart it was down to normal 26.
> > Then just now mac os run at 92 megabytes.
> >
> > I only used Squeak/Scamper and Netscape in for that period.
> >
> > Karl
> >
> 
> That sounds like an issue with Open Transport not freeing memory somewhere.
> Which version are you using? My notes say Open Transport 2.0.3 is installed
> on 8.6. I'll setup a machine and see if I can recreate your issue.
> 
> I assume you when you run out of memory  you mean the system heap is growing
> from 26MB to 72MB.
Yes
> 
> Note however this isn't an issue with OT 2.61 or I believe 2.5 since these
> versions were used to move GB of data and millions of socket open/close
> iterations.
> 
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