Left game running long time - memory leak?


Big_King

 

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I left one of my toons logged in overnight and when I returned, I was greeted by what appears to be a CoH debug screen. It had references to Cryptic and said please post this on the Beta Forums and had options to Ignore, Debug, Abort, and Copy to Clipboard. This is what I copied:
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Assertion failed

Program: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Sat May 30 11:48:10 PM
Process ID: 164
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

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Since there are no beta forums, I came here. I can log in fine now, but thought the message might indicate some larger issue. Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions with what to do with it or where to send it?


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Posted

Something was definitely leaking, and it leaked so badly that there wasn't enough memory left to process a heap dump to the disk. There isn't much point in reporting the issue, because you have no useful data to transmit regarding what the issue might have been. (As a software developer, I can tell you that an anecdotal report with no heap or core dump is not very useful.)

As far as having an issue when leaving the game running all night, I suggest the Vaudeville Solution:

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

Doctor: Well, don't do that!