On Nov 30, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Eric Richards wrote:
> Hi -
>
> With the talk of memory leak on the nug I was thinking,
> wouldn't a more accurate term be memory absorption ?
No, the correct term for this behavior is memory leak, and has been
for ages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak
>
> When someone says " my app has a memory leak"
> what comes to mind is there app is losing or has less
> memory being used, not more.
>
> This might sound strange, but does anyone
> have an example that would show a "memory leak"
> that works on Rb 5.5.5 and OS 9 ?
>
> I just want to see for my self, first hand experience.
>
Well, the basic gist of it is that your program allocates memory,
uses that memory, and then when done with it, does not free it up to
be re-used by the operating system. Thus, from the OS point of view,
your program is consuming more and more and more memory without
freeing it back up. This is why it is called a memory leak - because
it is from the point of view of the OS.
-- Kimball
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