Re: Weird (possible) memory leak
Arlis Rose wrote:
Hello everyone hopefully someone can offer me some advice with this problem
I am having, it's a really odd one for sure, no idea what could be causing
it.
Alright essentially we have a memory leak, how do I know? Well the taskbar
shows very small constantly incrementing memory usage for the process (that
alone isn't enough however) if I let the program run for about 1 1/2 weeks
it will finally simply stop responding (and taskmanager will report it as
using around 200 megs (oh it start off around 650 K) :S
Now this is not a regular memory leak, as I have checked (and re-checked)
the code for new or malloc calls, I have run VLD on it, and even tried
another codeproject memory leak detector called StackWalker). -> Everything
returns no memory leaks detected!
Alright so after explaining all that, here is the weird part. If I minimize
(as in actually press the minimize button) my program (according to task
manager) drops down to around 650 K again :S I tried simply calling
ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE); but this doesn't seem to have the same effect :(
So please, if anyone can think of something they have seen in the past....or
else know from person experience please let me know. The weird thing is
this is one of my simplest dialog program, the other ones (some of which use
multiple modeless dialog and threads) don't exhibit this kind of behavior.
So thank you for any help you may be able to offer.
Arlis T. Rose
This does not sound like an actual leak, just laziness in the memory
allocator. You can probably force it back to 650 K yourself by calling
SetProcessWorkingSetSize.
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