Rev Classic Crashing

[John]

This sounds more like a bug than a "feature".  It is also a bit 
disturbing to have your built application leaking memory.  Perhaps you 
should consider posting this bug on the "improve" list to make sure the 
problem is noted.

Just a thought,
John Miskimins

On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 11:10 PM, Karl Petersen wrote:
>
> If Rev allocates more and more memory to itself the longer it runs, 
> won't it inevitably crash? To test this, I built a MacPPC app (20MB 
> memory allocation, dynamic memory allocation tested both checked and 
> unchecked) whose main routine saves 100 images to jpegs. Each time it 
> runs that routine, the app grabs 15MB more RAM, until eventually it has 
> allocated about 150MB to itself. It always crashes when the Mac's free 
> RAM drops below 125MB. (I.1.1, MacOS 9.1, 512MB physical RAM)
>
> Isn't it inevitable the app will crash when either 1) it can't allocate 
> more memory to itself; or 2) it starves the Mac OS/other apps of 
> memory? What am I missing? This just doesn't sound right.