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Jeffrey W. Harris

2005-11-08, 3:58 pm

I have a application running on XP Pro system that accesses network tables and performs different scheduled task. On somewhat frequent occasions the application will "crash". What I've noticed is the desktop screen beneath my application is "fuzzy and n
ot all painted in." Today I started up the application (v2.01) and watched my Windows Task Manager. What I noticed was the PF Usage under the Performance tab steadily increase in size starting at 142MB and now up to 211MB. In the processes tab the Imag
e Name column has the PLUSrun.exe growing in size also with other entries stable in size. The image is now up to 57K.
Would this be a reason for the application to "crash" unexpectedly? What action steps are needed to find where the challenge is in the application? Any tools I could use to help identify and resolve this "memory leak?"
Please help in any way possible.

Thanks in advance.
Jeffrey
Marty Kay

2005-11-10, 3:23 am

Look for code that is creating objects, variables, arrays, etc without ever
releasing them,
especially in loops or processes that run either continuously or frequently
or for a long time.

- Marty Kay (dBI) -

"Jeffrey W. Harris" <jharris@smcclinic.com> wrote in message
news:QGE1TuK5FHA.1704@news-server...
> I have a application running on XP Pro system that accesses network tables

and performs different scheduled task. On somewhat frequent occasions the
application will "crash". What I've noticed is the desktop screen beneath
my application is "fuzzy and not all painted in." Today I started up the
application (v2.01) and watched my Windows Task Manager. What I noticed was
the PF Usage under the Performance tab steadily increase in size starting at
142MB and now up to 211MB. In the processes tab the Image Name column has
the PLUSrun.exe growing in size also with other entries stable in size. The
image is now up to 57K.
> Would this be a reason for the application to "crash" unexpectedly? What

action steps are needed to find where the challenge is in the application?
Any tools I could use to help identify and resolve this "memory leak?"
> Please help in any way possible.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Jeffrey



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