Experimental Physics and
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Thomas Birke <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 May 1998 16:35:52 +0200 (METDST)

>>>>> "Garrett" == Garrett D Rinehart <[email protected]> writes:

 Garrett> I've been running medm 2.2.9 from a Linux 4.1 pc for some months
 Garrett> now. It works well for nearly a day and then dies. After much
 Garrett> trial and tribulation, I have found no reason. My guess at this
 Garrett> moment is that there is a "memory leak" in medm. I think that
 Garrett> because: 1)It seems to run for different amounts of time with
 Garrett> different amounts of memory installed. 2) It sometimes reports
 Garrett> "out of memory for medm" in /var/log/messages. 3) Linux and X
 Garrett> continue to run. In fact, to get around this problem, I have a
 Garrett> cron task that checks up on medm and restarts it when it
 Garrett> dies... and it works.

 Garrett> Has anyone else experienced this or can anyone offer a
 Garrett> suggestion?

There have been memory leaks in older medm-versions (and 2.2.9 is an older
one). Although I didn't test 2.2.9 it might me a good idea to get a newer
version of medm. Both current versions (2.3.3 and 2.4.9) might have fixed
this memory-leak already. 

Thomas

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