somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 7/22/01 1:19 AM, the entity known
as Mark Montoya transmitted the following from markmontoya_at_mindspring.com:
> I have been monitoring my 2100 system ram and some app seems to be taking up
> memory? Something slowly starts eating away my system memory. For example,
> my system ram slowly goes down - 358128,355524,353380,352233,etc. It
> dissipates every 3 seconds. I have monitored it down to 54887. Any ideas?
> Does this sound like I need a system update? I am currently at ROM version
> 2.1 (717260)-1.
You mean this hasn't made it into the FAQ yet???
OK, the Reader's Digest version... The code that checks the heap actually
uses some heap. When the heap dwindles to a low enough level, the system's
automatic garbage collection clears everything out and you go back up to the
high number and it all starts over again. It is harmless. Whenever a
package needs memory, if there's not enough immediately available, the
garbage collection will be invoked, so there's no problems.
- Eric.
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