DGLInfo: Windows 95 Memory Leak When Using TCP/IP Socket Apps

Windows 95 Memory Leak
Stop resource degradation and possible lockups

While riding the waves through Microsoft's website we discovered an update to the Windows 95 kernel that eliminates a potential memory resource problem with the way Win95 interacts with TCP/IP programs such as those used to access the Internet.

[quote from Microsoft's page]
This update resolves a memory leak which occurs when opening and closing a Socket using the Windows Sockets API.

Without this update, running a Windows Sockets application over a long period of time, especially one which opens and closes a large number of sockets, will result a significant resource drain. This can cause the Windows swapfile to grow very large, overall deterioration of performance, and over time, possible system instability. This update allows users to better run such applications for long periods of time without loss of system performance and stability, and without requiring users to reboot their computers periodically to free system resources.

Customers who need to run Windows Sockets applications continuously over long periods of time, especially applications which use a large number of sockets, will benefit from this update.
[end quote]

The update file may be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/krnlupd.htm

It was posted to the Microsoft site in April '96 ... sorry it took us so long to find and report it.

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updated October 23, 1996
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