Bj_rn wrote (2022-01-23):
O>> Why reboot? Isn't the lost memory freed after binkd has been
O>> terminated?
BF> Well, if that was the case, I wouldn't regard it as leakage.
On a modern mainstream OS, the mess is cleaned up after the application has been terminated, but it's still called memory leak.
BF> No, it isn't. Can it be some cache grabbing that isn't done correctly?
BF> I've always thought it was related to the badly written WinAPI calls
BF> for cache usage, but then I saw someone else mentioning it, so I thought
BF> I'd bring it up. As I said -- no big deal.
What do I know about Windows ... ;).
The support hotline would suggest to upgrade to the newest version and try again.
2:203/2's binkd is 7 years old.
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