Dyyryath
11-21-2003, 01:32 AM
The guys at Distributed Folding have released a new version of the client. It's available at <a href="http://www.blueprint.org/proteinfolding/distributedfolding/distfold_download.html">the regular place</a> and it purportedly fixes <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4600">a memory leak</a> as well as <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4808">a couple of other things</a>. It will automatically get sent during the next protein update, but for those of you worried about the memory leak (<a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4807">like me</a>), it's probably worth getting and manually installing ahead of time (i.e. NOW). <br><br>I've only had it running for a couple of hours so far, so it's too early to tell whether this is the definitive fix, but I've got my fingers crossed. I had to switch all my clients to low RAM usage because of this leak and it was <b>seriously</b> affecting my stats. <img src=http://www.free-dc.org/images/news/icon37.gif><br><br>As I write this, Howard hasn't said anything in the memory leak thread about this update, but here's what he posted on the <a href="http://www.blueprint.org/proteinfolding/distributedfolding/distfold_news.html">news page</a>:<br><br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><b>Memory leak fixed</b>: A small memory leak has been fixed - new executables are available for download. The changes to the client will be included in the next protein auto-update</td></tr></table><br><br>So, if you've been having problems with the DF client lately, you should definately give this new version a shot.