[Skimmertalk] CW Skimmer - more

[Pete Smith]

At 05:06 PM 11/12/2008, David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
>It may be within the program.  As decoders come and go the memory they use
>may need to be recycled, that would depend on how it was coded, what
>language, and how the internal memory management interacts with windows.
>That should be visible on one of the memory statistics in the task manager.
>

I have seen occasional memory runaways in Skimmer - on one occasion, I 
recall it got over 100 megabytes on one of the two processes - but there 
does not seem to be any direct correlation between the amount of CPU 
resources being burned and the amount of memory committed.  Really a puzzle 
- I was thinking that perhaps the program sometimes drops into a loop that 
burns endless CPU cycles until somehow it is disabled, either through 
restarting the program or changing some operating parameter.  The problem 
with this theory is that sometimes it *starts* up in CPU-hog mode.  Puzzling!