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Re: Memory Leak (MS-Scenes?)

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From: Andrew Brydon
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00
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Once upon a time,  Andrew Brydon <andrew@isbjorn.demon.co.uk> wrote
>Is there a known problem with McAfee3.1, WinZip6.2 or TweakUI
>which would cause a memory leak in NS-Scenes??
>
>On the same day I installed the above three (McAfee crashed during
>first attempted install, but was okay on 2nd). Since then I am
>getting weird cache problems of the growing and not shrinking kind.
>MS-Scenes seems to grab and grab, getting worse over time, so that
>after about 8 hours it needs a 60Mb cache....
>
>[It could be something else running, but Scenes has caused non-reducing
>cache increases in my first "tests" to try to find the cause.]
>VShield is running - could it be that? Testing needs a few hours
>between guesses, so is going very slowly... :(  

[After more searching]

Could it be McAfee - it was sharing a DLL with the Smartcom package
which came with my Hayes Accura - and that is running the whole time...
-- 
Andrew Brydon
Life is just the beta-version of death
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From: Andrew Brydon <andrew@isbjorn.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Memory Leak (MS-Scenes?)
Date: 1997/11/12
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