Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
minnesläckande
English translation:
memory leaking
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Glenn Viklund
Mar 27, 2001 12:30
23 yrs ago
Swedish term
minnesläckande
Swedish to English
Tech/Engineering
Den minnesläckande versionen av minneshanterare har används.
"memory erasing"?
"memory erasing"?
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memory leaking
This refers to the problem that certain processes (applikations) continually uses an extended amount of memory. This can for example be caused by poorly written drivers.
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memory leaking
memory leak n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion. Also (esp. at CMU) called core leak. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out. With the advent of virtual memory, it is unfortunately easier to be sloppy about wasting a bit of memory (although when you run out of memory on a VM machine, it means you've got a real leak!).
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