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OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« on: August 15, 2014, 08:48:57 am »
Is OpenXcom supposed to crash after long periods of operation or play time, because Iv noticed it eating up large amounts of memory like almost 3Gb and then becoming non-responsive ?


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Re: OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2014, 03:08:10 pm »
Is OpenXcom supposed to crash after long periods of operation or play time, because Iv noticed it eating up large amounts of memory like almost 3Gb and then becoming non-responsive ?

No, not at all. I've never heard anything like this.

Can you post some info on your system and version?

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Re: OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2014, 03:33:33 am »
why would we intentionally code in memory leaks?

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Re: OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2014, 12:46:28 pm »
why would we intentionally code in memory leaks?

Uh... for science?

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Re: OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2014, 03:18:38 pm »
Maybe he meant "is it known behavior that OpenXCom"... Instead of "is it intentional behavior", since it obviously wouldn't be intentional.

I've noticed something similar: that it becomes more and more difficult to run other programs along OpenXCom as I play longer. But I blamed it on my computer being a crappy one. Maybe there is something? (I'm using Linux, version 1.0 of OpenXCom)

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Re: OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2014, 06:37:29 am »
OS                   Win 7 Home Premium SP1
HAL              6.1.7601.17514
Manufacturer   Dell Inc.
Model      Inspiron N5030
CPU              Intel Core 2 Duo T9300
BIOS              A02, 9/13/2010
RAM              6GB
ACPI x64 Based

Im no programer but from my knowledge memory leaks are somewhat common in C & C++ applications.

This has only happened twice and I wasnt sure why, at the time I didnt have a page file set now its system managed. Im hoping that will resolve the problem. If it continues ill post back with more detailed information.

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Re: OpenXcom unstable after long periods
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2014, 10:52:16 am »
I had a blue screen of death while playing OpenXcom with a Page Fault relating to memory.

As this only happened to me once, I'll consider it as a blip but will investigate if it happens again with OpenXcom