New mac vm memory leak ?
Raab, Andreas
Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Tue Jun 13 04:32:55 UTC 2000
Tim,
What John was mentioning was the equivalent of a 'kill -9'. I don't think
there's time to call atexit() in this situation on Unix machines either...
- Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Rowledge [mailto:tim at sumeru.stanford.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:32 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
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> Subject: Re: New mac vm memory leak ?
>
>
> In message <B56AFCC3.9248%johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> you wrote:
>
>
> > Oh just one thing, if you force terminate (cmd-opt-esc)
> Squeak the network
> > stuff does not get unload and you WILL leak memory. There
> is a fix for that,
> > but it is a somewhat extraordinary hammer to hit a poor
> image with, so
> > don't.
> This is bad behaviour - is the module shutdown stuff not in
> the atexit()
> function list? Andreas & I carefully made it easy to call all the
> modules' shutdown behaviours; if the code isn't being run it
> could cause
> all sorts of resource leaks.
>
> tim
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