Subj : Memory leakage

From : Oli
Date : Mon Jan 24 2022 08:17 pm

Bj_rn wrote (2022-01-23):

O>> Why reboot? Isn't the lost memory freed after binkd has been
O>> terminated?

BF>     Well, if that was the case, I wouldn't regard it as leakage.

On a modern mainstream OS, the mess is cleaned up after the application has been terminated, but it's still called memory leak.

BF> No, it isn't. Can it be some cache grabbing that isn't done correctly?

BF>     I've always thought it was related to the badly written WinAPI calls
BF> for cache usage, but then I saw someone else mentioning it, so I thought
BF> I'd bring it up. As I said -- no big deal.

What do I know about Windows ... ;).

The support hotline would suggest to upgrade to the newest version and try again.

2:203/2's binkd is 7 years old.

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