Memory leaks

[antonk]

Hi,
Can anybody tell me if it is OK or not. When I'm starting the devcie I have something about 21Mb of free program memory. All addons I'd installed to SD memory card. After some period of work, typically 2 days, I see that the available memory reduces to 17Mb. Cleaning all cashes and unnecessary files, having no running applications is not helping a lot.
After reboot I again have 21Mb back.
Which component is stealing the memory?
I have a 20-year experience in programming of big computers, and such behaviour is typically considered as a serious bug.
This Herald is my first device with WM5 (and WM in general) and I don't know if it is the feature of WM5 of is connected with this certain device. Can anybody advice me?

[Bader]

Don't warry, that's OK. If you need, you can close all the applications (Start-Settings-System-Memory-Running applications-Stop all.)

And, additionaly, some system apps use memory.

In any case, a lot of memory is needed only for apps like GPS-navigators, databases etc

[antonk]

(Start-Settings-System-Memory-Running applications-Stop all.)

And, additionaly, some system apps use memory.

In any case, a lot of memory is needed only for apps like GPS-navigators, databases etc

Of course, I stopped everything. It seems like some programmes are not freeing all the memory used and are leaving "orphans". It is necessary to reboot device from time to time, and this is a typical behaviour of "sick" operating system. After a month of continuous work you would be out of memory. I cannot consider OS be stable, if it is necessary to reboot each day. Well done again, Billy.

[kennyidaho]

I have noticed the same thing on my 4350. Right now I have 16.74 avaible, I soft reset it last night :(

[mikej4]

Believe it or not, this is typical of all windows mobile phones. For whatever reason, many programs that use memory will not release it when closed. I usually reboot my phone once a day to free up the memory. I have a couple of third party apps that I use that actually take the memory down to 5megs. Even after closing them, I only get 12-13 back.

[antonk]

Bad news. And this is not question of belief, it is a fact. I will consider moving to 'nix.

[RpR]

There's no working *nix builds available that'll run on the phone AFAIK.

[kennyidaho]

There's no working *nix builds available that'll run on the phone AFAIK.

Hey might mean that he is switching to devices that run linux out of the box.