Purported Zoomer memory leak
"Jack Miller" <JACK@lagoon.palm.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 20:11 PST
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From: "Jack Miller" <JACK@lagoon.palm.com>
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Subject: Purported Zoomer memory leak
Status: OR
There have been messages posted about a purported memory leak in
the Zoomer.
It is true that the Zoomer keeps track of state information for each
application launched in separate state files for each app. This is a
feature. These state files for each app are created/updated
when a launched app is pushed out of the cache. They allow you to
move between apps and return to the exact spot in each whenever the
app is re-entered or launched. Over time the state files for *some* of
the apps do grow as the amount of state information needing to be
saved grows.
These conditions don't constitute a memory leak. We have tested
several times for a true "leak" and haven't been able to find one, and
we've also tested for growth of the state files for a number of apps
and found that most do not change size significantly once created.
It is true that you can delete all state files by doing a soft reset, and
you can manually delete individual state files in the file manager
(b:[internal]\geoworks\privdata\state). This is a handy way to recover
some bytes as memory gets low.
jack miller
Palm Tech Support