Critical Memory?

I've never heard of critical memory but if i was faced with choosing an option then i would probably say it is the chips on the RAM stick.
 
the people i work for talk about critical memory so i wanted to learn what it is. I work in software developement, im a tester. they talk about this error could be caused my the critical memory being currupted. I think they might be talking about memory the program uses but doesnt write to the hard drive like ram. i dont know tho so i wanted to find out.
 
If my understanding of the context is right, when they say 'critical memory error' they mean an error has occured while trying to read or write to ram and causes the program to die.
 
found out more about it. critical memory is on the hard drive. the vlts have 2 hard drives, one for programs and such and one for critical memory, i also know that it is memory that the games use as like a cache... its on a hard drive so that even if there is memory leakage the whole drive wont fill for a very long time. for those of you who program, its like when you create a new object, it takes memory. the memory is wrote to critical memory.
 
memory leaks can occur on any OS. Say you're working with pointers and you make a big long list and when getting rid of it you forget about all the linked objects, there you have a memory leak. When your program exits windows is supposed to clean it all up. Newly created objects being on the hard drive doesn't make sense, if you just created it it is in RAM (it may be swapped to the hard drive in the swap file/virtual memory)
 
jcnoernberg said:
i program, and i dont understand memory leakage? wont fill for a long time? whats are you talkin' about?
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yeah memory leakage is kinda advanced programing stuff, it doesnt matter if you are just making a little program but for big programs when you make eneugh variables it takes up alot of ram and if you dont destroy them all the ones that are not used anymore that werent destroyed are considered "leaked memory" because that memory is occupied but its not being used so that slows down your computer.

Cromewell said:
memory leaks can occur on any OS. Say you're working with pointers and you make a big long list and when getting rid of it you forget about all the linked objects, there you have a memory leak.
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yupp, or if u are using object oriented programing and forget to delete an object, it doesnt have to be with a linked list or polymorphism. as the program calls that function quite a bit the memory leakage will add up.

Cromewell said:
Newly created objects being on the hard drive doesn't make sense, if you just created it it is in RAM (it may be swapped to the hard drive in the swap file/virtual memory)
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hmm yeah i guesse that doesnt make sense hmm just tryin to figure it out...
 
it doesnt have to be with a linked list or polymorphism
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no, but I thought that would be the easiest to understand example of a memory leak. Windows is supposed to clean them all up when the program finishes but a good programmer wont leave that to the OS.
 
Cromewell said:
no, but I thought that would be the easiest to understand example of a memory leak.
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yes i agree that is a easier to understand example but if he hasnt heard of memory leakage he might not know what a linked list is, but they are pretty cool arent they? i think theory is a cool way to go in programming but the only thing i could see someone doing with it is research or teaching it.
 
no i dont think it is. check out this search on google for ciritcal memory error
http://www.google.ca/search?biw=100...ory+error&meta= <http://www.google.ca/search?biw=1004&hl=en&q=critical+memory+error&meta=>

other people use it too but i just cant find a definition for it
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Yeah from that context "critical" applies to "memory error" rather than just "memory"

memory leakage? wont fill for a long time? whats are you talkin' about?
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Memory that doesnt get freed properly when a program terminates

yeah memory leakage is kinda advanced programing stuff
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Id argue its a basic thing :P Advanced programmers tend to avoid it heehee


(anyways we're getting off topic hehe)
 
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