[WriteLog] Software Memory Leak
Mike Mellinger WA0SXV
wa0sxv@mellinger.com
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:02:54 -0700
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Not exactly. Garbage collection is collecting and compressing chunks of
free memory that have been properly released either by the program
itself. A memory leak is caused by memory that isn't properly released
and therefore the garbage collector would believe that it was still in
use and would not collect it while the defective program was running.
Mike
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From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Marijan Miletic,
S56A
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 05:40
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Software Memory Leak
This problem was called "garbage collection" in the previous millenium
:-)
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Not exactly. Garbage =
collection is
collecting and compressing chunks of free memory that have been properly
released either by the program itself. A memory leak is caused by =
memory that isn’t
properly released and therefore the garbage collector would believe that =
it was
still in use and would not collect it while the defective program was =
running.</span></font></p>
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Behalf Of </span></b>Marijan Miletic, S56A<br>
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03, 2002
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