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- From: wchwang@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Wei-Chung Hwang)
- Subject: Re: Memory leak under twm in dv-x
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.064256.7848@csie.nctu.edu.tw>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:42:56 GMT
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- John Brehm (jbrehm@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
- : I've been working on porting ctwm to dv-x, and all is well except for
- : a very serious bug. As far as I can tell, ALL variants of twm (uwm,
- : vtwm, ctwm) spring a significant memory leak. The symptoms are
- : as follows - after about one minute, dv-x memory status reports a
- : drop of 64k in expanded memory; after that, every 15 seconds, another
- : 16k (*exactly*) disappear from expanded memory.
- :
-
- hey..., I also have had the same problem..., all the same as you said.
- But I noticed that if I run twm.exe and display on remote Sun workstation,
- it worked fine. The memory leak disappear ! I think the memory is stealed
- by the dvx *SERVER*, not by twm...
- Just a thought, maybe DVX server didn't support other window manager expect
- QuarterDeck's product...
- QD's staff, is that true ?
-
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- Wei-Chung Hwang
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