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Classification: |
General |
Category: |
Emulator |
Created: |
10/28/2002 |
Modified: |
04/14/2003 |
Number: |
FAQ-0829 |
Platform: |
Not Applicable |
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Question: I have tests which run overnight which involve creating and exiting threads. However sometimes after a few thousand have been
created, the tests fails with KErrGeneral from RThread::Create().
Answer: There is a problem with the underlying PC emulation of threads. When a thread is terminated under Symbian OS, the thread has
exited and freed it's memory, but the underlying Windows thread cannot free it's resources until the emulator process exits.After a few thousand threads have been created and destroyed, the resources mount up so that there is no space left to create
a new thread and the emulator becomes useless and needs restarting.
Apparent Memory Leak This behaviour can be seen when opening and closing an application. The memory footprint of the emulator keeps going up each
time the app is terminated and closed.
Solution There is no current solution for 7.0 and precursors, it is a limitation of the emulator. The problem does not show up on hardware.
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