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To: wajnberg AT antibes DOT inra DOT fr (Eric Wajnberg), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:53:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: Rhide and free available memory
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On 20 Mar 2001, at 16:42, Eric Wajnberg wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am using Rhide and I am using the option enabling to show at the upper right
> corner of the screen the free virtual/physical memory available.
> 
> Beside this, I am regularly working with different projects one after the
> other, and I found that the free memory indicated is continuously decreasing,
> even if I started to work on a very little project that shuld not use a lot of
> memory.
> 
> My questions are thus: (1) how accurate are these indications? and (2) is
> there a way to refresh these informations from time to time?
> 

There are memory leaks, especially in debugger part. One can easily 
test it under Linux with gdb by setting executable to be debugged
with command file multiple times and looking how much memory gdb 
takes. So if RHIDE takes too much memory, then simply restart RHIDE

Andris