Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Bonnie Madre <[email protected]> · Fri, 08 May 1998 11:46:29 EDT

Garrett Rinehart wrote:

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

I am running a hybrid medm (2.3.3 and 2.3.4beta1) on Linux 5.0 and
Motif 2.1.  I have not noticed a problem of that type, but then, I
have not left medm up for long periods of time.  I just started a
session, with a relatively large display (lots of connections).  I
will leave it up over the weekend, and check if it behaves in the same 
way.  As Thomas Birke suggested, the solution _may_ be to get a newer 
medm, since the problem might have been fixed in later versions.  
I will let you know my results on Monday.

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