Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Bonnie Madre <[email protected]> · Mon, 11 May 1998 8:41:27 EDT

Hi, all,

Well, it's Monday and I promised to report the results of letting medm run
all weekend on my Linux system (RH5.0, RH Motif 2.1, hybrid MEDM
2.3.3/2.3.4beta1).  It has not died, no memory problems, no error reports,
and I can still bring up screens normally.  It may be that in later
versions of MEDM, the "memory leak" goes away.

> Garrett Rinehart wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've been running medm 2.2.9 from a Linux 4.1 pc for some months 
> > now. It works well for nearly a day and then dies. After much trial 
> > and tribulation, I have found no reason. My guess at this moment is 
> > that there is a "memory leak" in medm. I think that because: 1)It 
> > seems to run for different amounts of time with different amounts of 
> > memory installed. 2) It sometimes reports "out of memory for medm" 
> > in /var/log/messages. 3) Linux and X continue to run. In fact, to 
> > get around this problem, I have a cron task that checks up on medm 
> > and restarts it when it dies... and it works.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced this or can anyone offer a suggestion?
> > 

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