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Your/our Computer(s) Had Suffered A Memory Leak, And We Are Waiting For Them To Be Topped Up.
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Your/our computer(s) had suffered a memory leak, and we are waiting for them to be topped up.
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core leak n. Syn. memory leak.
We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened.
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910), Huckleberry Fi...
REAGAN virus: your computer has no memory at all.
memory leak n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
Also (esp. at CMU) called core leak. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
leaky heap n. [Cambridge] An arena with a memory leak.
leak n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished
o they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in....
leak: n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished
o they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in....
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weise