Need the definition of concept of Windows Memory Leak, and symptoms of this elusive concept.
Need the definition of “Windows Memory Leak”, and symptoms of this elusive concept.
Hello,
I have been a Level II Helpdesk Technician [with schooling for MCSA] for three years. I have heard about the “Windows Memory Leak”, but I don’t understand the rudiments of the concept. I checked Webopedia and found: [A bug in a program that prevents it from freeing up memory that it no longer needs. As a result, the program grabs more and more memory until it finally crashes because there is no more memory left.] However, I still don’t understand. I’ve heard the term tossed around a lot and it seems to be a sort of computer industry urban legend. I searched the DB here and see the term as it applies to other various areas. I am trying to understand the concept itself in a basic way, and what basic symptoms/causes it has. It seems to me that many techs blame slow pc behavior on a memory leak, but they never have any evidence. Many issues are getting unfairly blamed on the elusive memory leak.
How does a tech know when there’s a memory leak problem?
Can it be proved?
How do you know?
*Can the memory leak problem be properly isolated in the trouble-shooting steps?
What does Microsoft say about memory leaks?
What are the symptoms?
What is the fix?
Hello,
I have been a Level II Helpdesk Technician [with schooling for MCSA] for three years. I have heard about the “Windows Memory Leak”, but I don’t understand the rudiments of the concept. I checked Webopedia and found: [A bug in a program that prevents it from freeing up memory that it no longer needs. As a result, the program grabs more and more memory until it finally crashes because there is no more memory left.] However, I still don’t understand. I’ve heard the term tossed around a lot and it seems to be a sort of computer industry urban legend. I searched the DB here and see the term as it applies to other various areas. I am trying to understand the concept itself in a basic way, and what basic symptoms/causes it has. It seems to me that many techs blame slow pc behavior on a memory leak, but they never have any evidence. Many issues are getting unfairly blamed on the elusive memory leak.
How does a tech know when there’s a memory leak problem?
Can it be proved?
How do you know?
*Can the memory leak problem be properly isolated in the trouble-shooting steps?
What does Microsoft say about memory leaks?
What are the symptoms?
What is the fix?
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=leakyapp.exe
basically what happens is you start a program and it keeps taking more and more memory then you close the app and it does not release the memory back to teh system essentially being lost into a black hole. then you restart the app and again it starts consuming memory.