Memory issues

[Nordlund]

Hi ther.
What causes the application to use large amount of Virtual memory?

I have used Code Sleuth (Codewatch) to monitor my application. The Virtual memory seems to climb never reached heights.

This is critical thus this application shall be runned as a service in the near future.

I uses a lot of TStrings in this application, and I don't clear them before freeing them...



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[xdracox]

Are you using a recursive function/procedure? That's what happened to me once.

 

[Nordlund]

I used classes derrived from TList. Don't ask me why I did that. This caused really serious memoryleaks.

I now use classes derived from TOjbect, and I have added a private TList som hold object. No more memoryleaks with this solution...

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[whosrdaddy]

Nordlund,

one of the reasons of the having leaks in derived TList objects is that many people tend to forget to call the inherited methods when overriding ancestor methods...

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[Nordlund]

Yeps, that must have been the case.

Thanks guys...


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