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cold lazarus
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Posted - 2003.09.23 19:21:00 -
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maybe some of you more techy types can answer what is memory leak and. why do they keep resetting the server.
please in simple terms for a simple person
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2003.09.23 19:24:00 -
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Memory leak is caused by the faulty installation of an implant.
Or maybe it's "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"
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Seradhin
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Posted - 2003.09.23 19:24:00 -
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A memory leak is usually where you allocate memory to be used within a program and don't deallocate it when finished, this causes the memory to be marked unusable.
So program asks OS for X amount of memory and never gives it back, next time it wants to use memory for that portion of code it will ask for it again, this keeps going on until the OS has no more memory to give and usually something will crash at this point.
As to why they keep rebooting I'm guessing this is to sort out the stuck systems since several highway systems keep getting stuck. Why this is happening I guess only the devs know.
Hope this helps you.
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Arathmon
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Posted - 2003.09.23 19:25:00 -
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A memory leak is usually where you allocate memory to be used within a program and don't deallocate it when finished, this causes the memory to be marked unusable.
So program asks OS for X amount of memory and never gives it back, next time it wants to use memory for that portion of code it will ask for it again, this keeps going on until the OS has no more memory to give and usually something will crash at this point.
As to why they keep rebooting I'm guessing this is to sort out the stuck systems since several highway systems keep getting stuck. Why this is happening I guess only the devs know.
Hope this helps you.
To answer that: last patch introduced a very large memory leak into the servers.
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Gigi Ana
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Posted - 2003.09.23 19:29:00 -
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Edited by: Gigi Ana on 23/09/2003 19:30:01
A "memory leak" occurs when a piece of software allocates (reserves) a block of memory for something (icon, list, bit of text, whatever) but doesn't release (return) the memory block when it no longer needs it.
The problem becomes more serious when the chunk of code that does this is called often ... each time allocating a new block of memory but never returning it. This causes the memory use of the software to grow continually as long as the software runs ... eventually, the computer running the software will spend more and more of its time swapping physical memory to its paging file until performance hits an unacceptable level and the user kills it ...
Adding more physical RAM means you don't have to exit and restart the application as often, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem of the broken software.
~Gigi~
PS - Bah, other people beat me to it ...
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cold lazarus
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Posted - 2003.09.23 19:30:00 -
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ok so the memory is on their side not mine ? as i have over a gig of ddr 333 whatever ram and my hdd still frags like hell after a few hours play. 
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