Re: Undetected memory leaks?

On 2005-04-26, Terry_56 <terry_howsham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Using Delphi V5, Win2000.
> Using Fastmemshare.pas
> Even after checking with MemProof and MemCheck the Application still
> "eats" up memory.
> Windows Task manager shows that the program memory size slowly
> increases over a 24 hour period, but closing the program releases all
> memory allocated.
> * If I minimize the program windows, then memory is also released.
>
> As stated above MemProof and MemChk showed NO LEAKS!
> Any ideas would be helpful.

There are a lot of things possible, but a common cause is so called "heap
fragmentation". There have been threads about this in the past.
.

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