Thread: How do you stop Memory Leaks?
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2009-04-06 , 01:40
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Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
My most used applications are MicroB, Mediabox, Pygtkeditor, RSS Reader, MyTube, Emelfm2, Terminal, App Manager, PDF Reader, Tear, Leafpad, Vagalume, etc. I shut down the device every night and turn it on every morning. I probably use 75% of the above listed apps every day (opening & closing them more than once), and use an array of other apps, too (I boot from a 2gb sd card, and it is almost completely filled with apps!).

My device is always just as responsive as when I first boot it after closing everything down (namely the browser, it sucks down quite a bit of memory when open).

The only thing 'different' with my device is that I boot off an sd card and have a massive partition for swap (~400 mb).

But my device was always like that, even before I made the huge swap partition (the swap is for debian applications, mostly).

I understand that your device remains responsive when using those apps, but what i'm trying to get at is slightly different.
When I use my everyday apps like maemo mapper, gpe calendar todo list, almost ti calc, mediaplayer, mplayer, mytube, and I switch among them my device also remains as responsive as before.
This does not take away from the fact that memory leaks are still occurring. I think the leaks do not keep incrementing, for example if I open mediaplayer and when I close it it leaves some unnecessary process running taking up memory, when I go to open it again later in the day, I guess it would use that already open process as opposed to reopening a new instance of it.
(mediaplayer as an example.)


Although these unnecessary processes do not interfer when I'm using small apps, and when I'm using them a few at the same time, they do interfere when I'm trying to run a heavier app like Openoffice or when I'm using several small apps at once.