– Computer Memory Leaks. Why do they happen, and what happens?
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This is a game of kid musical chairs, but a kid that keeps leaking everywhere (possibly eaten a bad apple) that kid sits makes a mark on the seats taken. Those seats aren’t cleaned up in the middle of the game, nor does the kid clean up after the seat sat in and this makes other kids not want to sit in those seats in contaminated sitting. To the kids that do sit on those dirty seats get the mess the leaking kid left behind. A teacher can take away the dirty seats in the middle of the game but is not able to return those cleaned seats back to the game in time.
The kid leaving the leak obviously has a digestion compilation problem (problem application).
The seats in the circle are the available physical memory space.
The teacher, if there is one, is the operating system.
If the kid leaking cleans up the seat after every sit, then that would be where an application has a proper application cleanup in development.
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