[Dxspider-support] Memory Leak in Windows

[Ian J Maude]

Lee Sawkins wrote:
> I am running 3 instances of Spider under Win 2K. 
>  
> After about 2 weeks I noticed that perl was using about 66 MB of RAM 
> for two of my instances and about 38 MB for the third.   The third 
> does not have many users, but the other two sometimes have as many 
> as 60 each.  Simply closing the three instances and restarting them 
> resulted in a huge drop in RAM usage.
This isn't just Windows not giving back the memory is it?  After a while 
that would look like a memory leak.  I use a utility called FreeRAM 
which checks and returns memory on a regular basis.  I don't run Spider 
under windows but I can imagine that would cause a problem.

Ian


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