"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:3c6653c6@news.povray.org: 

> While I do not want to claim there cannot be one small memory leak or
> two, I should point out that the Windows task manager display (or a
> similar display in any other OS) is by no means a tool to track or
> determine there is such a leak.  To the contrary, it is completely
> misleading! 

The usefulness of Task Manger for this purpose tends to depend on which 
data column is used to determine an application's memory footprint...

In any case, I can confirm the same results with Sysinternals' Process 
Explorer and the other diagnostic tools at my disposal.

> A simple way to explain what you see there is the message window:

I already took that into account by clearing the message window before 
noting pvengine's memory usage.  After discounting the message window, 
pvengine leaks around 8kb after each render.  Granted, this is peanuts 
compared to the partial render leak that can eat tens of MB, but 8kb can 
add up over a long animation.

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