A condition where a program continues to request more memory from an operating system, and doesn't tell the operating system when it is no longer using the memory. Programs with memory leaks (which can be considered a BUG) can end up using all of the memory available, or at least enough to cause performance problems.
A loss of usable storage space caused by the application's failure to correctly reclaim the memory occupied by the current KB's transient items.
Applications that require temporary memory request the memory from the operating sytem. When the application is done using the memory, it is supposed to tell the operating system so the operating system can use the memory for other applications. An application that fails to return the memory it had been given creates a " memory leak" - a situation in which some memory that is no longer in use is not available for future use.
A continual increase of memory use over time in an application. The most common cause of memory leaks is the creation of transient objects that the application never deletes.
a bug in an application that must be fixed by the programmer
a bug which causes a part of the memory (RAM) in your system to become unusable for ANY program until you reboot
a condition where a program has allocated some amount of memory for program use, but fails to release it when no longer needed
a data area that your program has allocated, is no longer in use, and your program should have freed
a fairly simple situation where a program loses track of the memory it has used, and neglects to free it for use by others
an object that can no longer be referenced but has not been deallocated
a part of memory that has been allocated but never got freed after
a program bug that consists of repeatedly allocating memory, using it, and then neglecting to free it
a programming error in which the programmer forgot to delete something that had been dynamically allocated
a zone of memory, allocated with malloc that is not used anymore
An application program has a memory leak if its size is constantly growing in virtual memory. This may happen if the program is continually requesting more memory without re-using memory allocated to data structures that are no longer in use. A program with a memory leak can eventually make the whole system memory bound, at which time it may start paging out or swapping.
A memory leak is a part of the systems RAM memory that isn't released properly. This is a common problem in software development.
programming flaw that causes the client to steal memory (RAM) use it and not give back to the computer when done with the operation, reboot required sometimes when the memory is depleted
A situation in which a program takes memory and inadvertently fails to return it. Memory leaks are common in large programs and can be difficult to correct. Java eliminates memory leaks, but at the expense of foresaking pointers, a favorite feature of C and C++ programmers.
Memory no longer needed, but not deallocated by the OO system. An application should finalize an object when it is no longer required. When an application no longer has a handle to an object which still exists, the object is effectively unreachable, and can no longer be finalized. This is a memory leak.
A condition where a program continues to request more memory from an operating system and doesn't tell the operating system when it is no longer using the memory. Programs with memory leaks can end up using all of the memory available, or at least enough to cause performance problems. Memory leaks in programs are fixed by using proper memory management techniques.
A memory leak is allocated data which doesn't have a pointer pointing to it. This is a common problem in software development.
A software bug in which the program allocates memory, loses track of it, and then allocates some more. If the program is long-running, it can eventually tie up large amounts of real memory and paging space. System performance gradually deteriorates; the program that finally fails due to lack of resource may not be the culprit. Memory leaks in kernel extensions that allocate pinned memory may be particularly costly.
In computer science, a memory leak is a particular kind of unintentional memory consumption by a computer program where the program fails to release memory when no longer needed. The term is meant as a humorous misnomer, since memory is not physically lost from the computer. Rather, memory is allocated to a program, and that program subsequently loses the ability to access it due to program logic flaws.