Re-produceable per-process Memory-leak in POL.EXE

[Alhanelem]

This should absolutely be fixed, though I'm not sure if they will because that's still not a ton of memory by today's standards and it doesnt seem like you can leak more memory once you have swapped between all of your characters, and in practice I don't think a majority of us log into 16 characters every single time or for long periods of time.

Just setting expectations I suppose, but it's a legit bug and frankly I'm impressed at your thoroughness. Wish everyone else went so far to identify problems like this.

[Gwydion]

This should absolutely be fixed, though I'm not sure if they will because that's still not a ton of memory by today's standards and it doesnt seem like you can leak more memory once you have swapped between all of your characters, and in practice I don't think a majority of us log into 16 characters every single time or for long periods of time.

Just setting expectations I suppose, but it's a legit bug and frankly I'm impressed at your thoroughness. Wish everyone else went so far to identify problems like this.

Thank you for your reply! I must point out that you are incorrect on a few fronts. Please allow me to clarify:

1.) The program POL.EXE is a 32-bit application capable of addressing (2-4GB of memory only). It is simply incapable of utilizing more RAM than this. All memory requests for POL.exe occur within this 2-4GB of virtual address space.
2.) As time goes on, a process requests more memory on the heap (RAM), so the operating system marks those memory pages as claimed when needed and frees them the process no longer needs them. When a process doesn't free memory regularly, Memory Fragmentation occurs. The process is now unable to allocate a contiguous block of memory that it needs to function. This will cause instability, black screens and process crashing.
3.) To be specific, the memory leak occurs for ANY amount of logout and logins. Every time you logout and login you are losing memory. It doesn't matter if it's 1 character, 16 characters or any number in between.

I hope this helps.