memory saturating with a repeat loop

[Bernard Devlin]

I've had both kinds of crashes. I'm just putting it forward that this
bug seems like a likely candidate given the descriptions of Andre and
Bernd. Have I missed something? They don't mention any OS crash
reporting occurring.

Bernard

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ian Wood<revlist at azurevision.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 22 Aug 2009, at 09:52, Bernard Devlin wrote:
>
>> I think Andre and Bernd may both have been victims of this bug:
>> http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2772
>
> They might have been, but the symptoms aren't quite the same.
>
> I've had memory problems in a loop that imported a snapshot, resized it,
> saved a new snapshot to disk and then deleted the resized snapsnot. This
> grabbed RAM each loop, and eventually crashes the standalone app or the IDE
> if left running long enough - but unlike the linked bug it crashes with a
> standard OS 'this app has crashed' dialog, on both Windows and OS X. No
> halting halfway through a handler, no 'silent' crashes and no crashes
> leaving a window and icon visible.
>
> Ian