[Malvern] Memory Reliability

[Guy Inchbald]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:22:22, Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> 
wrote:
>Am I missing something here ?  Does the type of network you use have a 
>bearing on the potential
>for memory leakage ?  Possibly in badly written network software ?

Methinks ye networky topic, complete with dire jokes (hooray!), hath 
hijacked a perfectly good memory-related thread.


Meanwhile, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:31:09, Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>Memory is always freed when  the process exits.
and
>Actually restarting the process should free the RAM,

Indeed it should. When it doesn't, we call the phenomenon "memory leak". 
I guess you weren't around during the early days of Java?


>There is not too much that an OS can do
>about temporary files. Unless they are in a pre-allocated place that
>gets cleaned at startup, a reboot will have no effect on these.

Not too much maybe, but don't forget that Microsoft are real 
professionals: if it's possible and its crap, they'll fine a way. 
Windows' biggest temporary file (hey, I've forgotten which one, it's so 
long since I had to play with it) does start in a pre-allocated place - 
which used to be bang in the middle of the system install area of the 
HD. When the allocated disc space filled up, the next bit of the file 
got stuck wherever the FAT 32 or NTFS filesystem felt like - and so on, 
building up a labyrinthine tangle of disc sectors for the ever-growing 
temp file - until the FAT got too - uh, fat, and the whole thing 
crashed. Luckily, as you say, the original empty file is recreated on 
rebooting.


>I think you know more about openMosix than I do :)

Only what I read in the FAQ you linked to.  ;)


>I find Inkscape a great application for vector graphics.

Inkscape is coming along nicely, but is a bit limited in file formats 
ATM. I'm looking forward to Xara Xtreme reaching v1.0.


>I am also able
>to double-click .exe files in Ubuntu for WINE to run them (and I have
>used this with setup exe's too).

So, you can just download some install.exe, double-click it and WINE 
kicks in? I knew that was mooted but I didn't realise it was now 
working. Or does it still need a few magic spells in the usual Linux 
"it's so easy" kind of way?

-- 
Cheers,
Guy