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   Oli to Björn Felten   
   Memory leakage   
   24 Jan 22 20:17:17   
   
   REPLY: 2:203/2 61eda48e   
   MSGID: 2:280/464.47 61eefb3d   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7   
   Bj_rn wrote (2022-01-23):   
      
    O>> Why reboot? Isn't the lost memory freed after binkd has been   
    O>> terminated?   
      
    BF>     Well, if that was the case, I wouldn't regard it as leakage.   
      
   On a modern mainstream OS, the mess is cleaned up after the application has   
   been terminated, but it's still called memory leak.   
      
    BF> No, it isn't. Can it be some cache grabbing that isn't done correctly?   
      
    BF>     I've always thought it was related to the badly written WinAPI calls   
    BF> for cache usage, but then I saw someone else mentioning it, so I thought   
    BF> I'd bring it up. As I said -- no big deal.   
      
   What do I know about Windows ... ;).   
      
   The support hotline would suggest to upgrade to the newest version and try   
   again.   
      
   2:203/2's binkd is 7 years old.   
      
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