What is meant by the term memory leak?
"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<1016185415.10285.0.nnrp-10.9e984b29_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
> Memory leaks are just one of those bad luck
> things. I was on a site recently that managed
> to leak 1.6GB of memory in 4 minutes on 8.1.7.2
> on a system that had previously been running for
> four months - with no recent code changes. It was
> just a new data item appearing that happened to
> exercise a previously unused code path.
>
>
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> Howard J. Rogers wrote in message ...
> >
> >Not sure why memory usage would be growing, off-hand. It shouldn't be.
> >8.1.7.0 ran for months on W2K here without memory leaks, but you could
> maybe
> >download the 8.1.7.3 patch, and see if that helps (ftp.oracle.com has the
> >patch set, but it's rather large!).
> >
> >Regards
> >HJR
Received on Fri Mar 15 2002 - 12:18:42 CST
