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Old 04-20-2005
Question How to handle memory error?
Hi,

I need to know what is the right way of handling out of memory conditions. If a program is not able to dynamically allocate memory (new fails), is it right to wait for some amount of time (say 5 sec) and then try again to allocate memory? Or should we kill the process and again restart it? My process needs to be running continuously. Even if due to some error it has to stop, it should resume action after some time automatically without any manual intervention.

Thanks,
Diganta
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Old 04-20-2005
It sounds like you have a memory leak - ie., calling new but not delete.

Waiting five or ten seconds will not increase process memory.

Depending on your OS, there are tools to find memory leaks in code. Check out electric fence and valgrind. There are versions of these tools for a lot of different unix-es.
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