From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 27 Sep 93 12:15:16 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@hplabs.hpl.hp.com Subject: FYI Message-ID: <9309271215.AA04655@cs.utexas.edu> List-Id: A few days ago I posted a request for help regarding a problem I was experiencing using the Alsys 386 compiler. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the application was eating up the heap. As time went on, more and more memory was being allocated but not deallocated. This created an incredibly long linked list of allocated memory blocks. The application slowed down simply because it took an incredibly amount of time to traverse the linked list looking for an open memory block. If the application ran long enough, say overnight, it ran out of memory and died. I rewrote the small portion of code that was performing dynamic memory allocation to avoid any memory allocation. That fixed my problem. Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone who provided me with input. It was of great help in solving this problem. Charles Z.