Debugging memory leaks

[rusi]

On Jun 15, 5:16 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> writes:
> > On Jun 14, 1:15 am, Giorgos Tzampanakis
> > <giorgos.tzampana... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Am I the only one who thinks this is terrible advice?
>
> > I would expect a typical desktop app to run for a couple of hours --
> > maybe a couple of days.
>
> Is a web browser a “typical desktop app”? A filesystem browser? An
> instant messenger? A file transfer application? A podcatcher? All of
> those typically run for months at a time on my desktop.
>
> Any memory leak in any of those is going to cause trouble, please hunt
> them all down with fire and exterminate with prejudice.

Oh well -- I guess I am an old geezer who shuts my machine when I am
done!
Yeah I know -- not so good for the disk though its good for the
planet!