Debugging memory leaks

[Ben Finney]

rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 14, 1:15 am, Giorgos Tzampanakis
> <giorgos.tzampana... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am I the only one who thinks this is terrible advice?
>
> I would expect a typical desktop app to run for a couple of hours --
> maybe a couple of days.

Is a web browser a “typical desktop app”? A filesystem browser? An
instant messenger? A file transfer application? A podcatcher? All of
those typically run for months at a time on my desktop.

Any memory leak in any of those is going to cause trouble, please hunt
them all down with fire and exterminate with prejudice.

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Ben Finney