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My program seems to have a memory leak, but there's absolutely no explanation.

Derek Forgione · 2012-02-27T05:39:26

I'm trying to make a game, but while looking at the Task manager, I discovered that the memory for my program was increasing with no apparent cause. I decided to stip out any code that might be allocating anything, and I STILL have the memory increasing. Here's the loop that seems to be what is causing the leak. I can't say it's really a memory leak, but I can't think of any other reason why the memory would continuously increase. while(!done) // Loop That Runs While done=FALSE { while(PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { if(msg.message == WM_QUIT) { done = true; } else { TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } } // Draw The Scene. Watch For ESC Key And Quit Messages From DrawGLScene() if (active && !Tick()/*Replace this with Tick()*/) // Active? Was There A Quit Received? { done=true; // ESC or DrawGLScene Signalled A Quit } else // Not Time To Quit, Update Screen { SwapBuffers(hDC); // Swap Buffers (Double Buffering) } } The code for "Tick()" is here: int Tick() { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); return 1; } I just copied some of the code from one of NeHe's tutorials. Is it possible that I have a memory leak, or is it normal for the memory to do this?

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Started by derek_of_bodom@hotmail.com February 23, 2012 05:50 AM

11 comments, last by iMalc 12 years, 2 months ago

irbaboon

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February 25, 2012 04:51 AM

while(!done) // Loop That Runs While done=FALSE[/quote]

Sorry. Just had to

bubu LV

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February 25, 2012 06:38 AM

Every self-respecting developer on Windows uses Process Explorer from Sysinternals.

Or ProcessHacker that does the same things and much more. And it's open-source!

iMalc

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February 27, 2012 05:39 AM

[quote name='iMalc' timestamp='1330021511' post='4915931']Every self-respecting developer on Windows uses Process Explorer from Sysinternals.

Or ProcessHacker that does the same things and much more. And it's open-source!
[/quote]Thanks, I didn't know about that one!

It looks pretty good, but alas as well as having more in some places it also has slightly less in others.

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