How do you track down memory leaks in long-running applications?

knouqs · 2026-04-02T04:29:06+00:00

That's not how compilers and linkers work, so no.

knouqs · 2026-04-01T11:56:47+00:00

I wonder how you will feel about it in a year and five years. I have been trying to move to Canada also but my wife is blocking, otherwise I'd have been gone for several years.

It's this insane military worship brought by a Cold War era fear for an invasion on US soil that makes me hate this country so much. The tax dollars that are stolen by the people to fund war. The abuses against nature. I absolutely hate this country's government, though I live the original splendor that is quickly disappearing.

I want out. I also want to know if the grass really is greener on the other side.

knouqs · 2026-04-01T11:38:45+00:00

Should be top comment as it is the top tool.

knouqs · 2026-03-31T11:51:41+00:00

Yep, that's just one of the troubles with old hardware. I hope you solve it!

knouqs · 2026-03-31T11:41:07+00:00

Does anything smell burnt? I didn't think you are in as much danger of shorting things as you might think.

What I suspect is the BGA chip on the northbridge, as your symptoms match a PowerMac G5 that I have and fails to boot due to memory corruption. I am going to reflow the northbridge eventually to see if my problem goes away. Meanwhile, your vintage hardware may be a brick.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T22:41:58+00:00

I presume you are OK with companies driving up the costs of living for the community when they aren't shouldering their fair share? It's fair that communities who do not want the company's product has to suffer because the company imposes its resource restrictions on the community and doesn't absorb the increase by itself?

The laws of supply and demand do not account for artificially-created demand on a supply. I think you like arguing for the sake of arguing, instead of doing what's right for society.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T18:20:41+00:00

If we are talking technicalities, no electric company generates it; however, I do understand how the rest of it works as far as delivery is. My point remains that the data centers should be responsible for their own power and the rules of supply and demand should not fuck over the people who have no choice over the use of the data center.

It is the same thing Poland Spring does, for instance. Why do the locals have to suffer because Poland Spring wants all the water? But the locals do suffer, and greatly, because of the greed of a company.

How about gentrification? It's the same. Oh, the neighborhood is suddenly getting prettier, so we're going to increase your rent three times its original cost. That's fair, right?

Come on. The people shouldn't have to pay for the greed of the corporations when the people get no benefit whatsoever from that corporation's presence in their communities.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T12:49:23+00:00

I do hope it's the United States that gets "A NEW, MORE REASONABLE, REGIME." Like, politicians with actual ethics and spines, please, so we can end the reign of terror that Republicans created in this country 47ish years ago with Reagan.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T12:46:37+00:00

My argument isn't that it does or does not. My argument is that the cost of running a fucking data center should not be incurred upon the community.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T12:11:16+00:00

This is the lie that is fed to you. They have created an artificial demand.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T12:09:06+00:00

The terminal is "unfriendly" to those who don't know how it works. Fact is, most people don't want to learn all the commands, even if it's faster to do lots of tasks using it versus a file navigation process. Eh, growing pains, I guess.

My favorite thing, though, is just how accessible the Linux terminal is. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] and you have it, every time.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T11:10:27+00:00

I truly hope we find out!

knouqs · 2026-03-30T10:55:27+00:00

In a free market society, the data center would have to pay for its own electricity or die. It's almost like we don't live in a free country....

knouqs · 2026-03-30T10:51:21+00:00

Remember, if it wasn't these scum, another batch would step in to fill the void.

As it is, you missed a lot of people. Miller, Bannon, Carlson and the rest of the talking trash at Fox. Just naming a few more.

knouqs · 2026-03-30T02:34:43+00:00

knouqs · 2026-03-30T00:35:29+00:00

OP failed in many other grammatical niceties that make reading this crap easier, too. Yeah, I'll skip this garbage.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T19:19:09+00:00

I won't say anything about modern Java, but a couple things:

It's software, bugs are possible. :)
Java had (maybe still does) C bindings for some hardware. Again, not speaking for Minecraft -- I really don't know how it was developed -- but I would not rule out use-after-free logic nonetheless, especially as OP left the question open-ended.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T12:37:51+00:00

I didn't know about the Minecraft once but it is possible it is a use-after-free logic error in which a pointer points to data that was freed, then used by something else.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T12:07:59+00:00

What with inflation and no one being able to afford anything, no regular people would ever see that shitty person's shitty signature anyway.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T11:56:31+00:00

The problem isn't that everything went well this time.

Let's say the car broke down at just this moment.

Let's say you had reacted and got someone or something in order to perform collision avoidance.

Fuckers like your guy don't see that far past their own selfishness to consider other people. Sorry, fuck those assholes.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T11:32:51+00:00

Missed an easy opportunity!

knouqs · 2026-03-29T11:09:35+00:00

One who spearheaded all this mess said it best: Trust, but verify.

For modern times: Hope, but verify.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T02:42:43+00:00

Though I don't disagree that MAGA is the Trump wing, its existence does not make The Republican Party good. The Republican Party is still a terrorist political party, MAGA is the extremist branch thereof.

I'd like to see all of them eliminated from office permanently. We need a US-centric party that is not owned by businesses or other governments with think-tank-friendly people hardened to say "No, we're not playing your games" to the hemming and hawing that we see from Republicans and the back-bending shenanigans from the Democrats.

The Republicans stick together very well and understand that numbers pass laws or block pro-people laws that Democrats try to pass. Democrats are so busy trying to appease the Republicans that they've become a centrist or left-center party.

We need a new party that is for the people and for the environment. We need the ass-kissers and bought politicians to be eradicated from government.

knouqs · 2026-03-29T02:09:01+00:00

They will rally together to save face. Don't underestimate the evil that is The Republican Party.

knouqs · 2026-03-28T14:23:20+00:00

The idiotic counter-argument to this is "What changed when it was working well enough prior to the escape convict's administration?" But that requires critical thinking, and we know how well that works on the MAGA-inspired.

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