[Freeciv-Dev] Re: out of disk space? (PR#615)

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

It is known there is a memory leak in the windows client. It is probably in
windows gdk. Someone go fix. :)

-Thue

ps: has someone posted a bug report to the gdk maintainer?

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 08:18:22 paulschultz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Full_Name: paul schultz
> Version: 1.11.4
> Distribution: Don't know
> Client: Gtk+
> OS: win98
> Submission from: (NULL) (142.66.14.170)
> 
> 
> alright, here goes. i loaded a saved game around 1300 ad, myself and 3 ai
> opponents. a long while into the game windows informed me i was low on
> disk
> space, and i (knowing that recently i had 1.5 Gb) thought that was
> strange, but
> deleted some junk anyway and continued playing. the next error, a couple
> hours
> later was from civ itself (it said visual c++) telling me that there was
> an
> unexpected error. checking the hard drive showed (from a dos prompt,
> which i
> suppose doesn't know how much windows is using for virtual memory, so
> gives a
> lower number than the truth) 0.55 Mb total free space. clicking ok on the
> error
> dialogue returned 1.6 Gb to the system. if civ runs for a long time does
> it just
> chew up more and more disk space, or is there a memory leak? let me know
> if i
> can give more info than that, but that's about the size of it.
> 
> -paul
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