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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Gross <jgross@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: memory leak
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> Maybe this subject has been discussed already, but I've been too busy to
> keep up with the list recently, so I may have missed it. 4.0 (Intel, NT)
> has a major memory leak when image sequences are loaded in. It appears that
> LW does not remove "old" images from memory as it loads through the
> sequence. On complicated scenes with multiple sequences, NT quickly runs
> out of memory and brings up a "virtual disk full" error message. Does
> anyone know if there is a fix for this planned or available? I consider
> this to be a very serious bug, and hope that it will be corrected soon. I
> recently did a show opening involving dozens of sequences, and I had to
> baby-sit my computers over the course of 3 days (including sleeping in my
> office) so I could re-load the scene each time NT ran out of memory.
Actually, this is a problem with Microsoft. Programmers take note! The
free call does not free up RAM as it should. check into calling heapmin
instead.
I would imagine that there will be a "fix" for Lightwave soon.
JG
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