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  • .NET Free memory usage (how to prevent overallocation / release memory to the OS)

    - by Ronan Thibaudau
    I'm currently working on a website that makes large use of cached data to avoid roundtrips. At startup we get a "large" graph (hundreds of thouthands of different kinds of objects). Those objects are retrieved over WCF and deserialized (we use protocol buffers for serialization) I'm using redgate's memory profiler to debug memory issues (the memory didn't seem to fit with how much memory we should need "after" we're done initializing and end up with this report Now what we can gather from this report is that: 1) Most of the memory .NET allocated is free (it may have been rightfully allocated during deserialisation, but now that it's free, i'd like for it to return to the OS) 2) Memory is fragmented (which is bad, as everytime i refresh the cash i need to redo the memory hungry deserialisation process and this, in turn creates large object that may throw an OutOfMemoryException due to fragmentation) 3) I have no clue why the space is fragmented, because when i look at the large object heap, there are only 30 instances, 15 object[] are directly attached to the GC and totally unrelated to me, 1 is a char array also attached directly to the GC Heap, the remaining 15 are mine but are not the cause of this as i get the same report if i comment them out in code. So my question is, what can i do to go further with this? I'm not really sure what to look for in debugging / tools as it seems my memory is fragmented, but not by me, and huge amounts of free spaces are allocated by .net , which i can't release. Also please make sure you understand the question well before answering, i'm not looking for a way to free memory within .net (GC.Collect), but to free memory that is already free in .net , to the system as well as to defragment said memory. Note that a slow solution is fine, if it's possible to manually defragment the large heap i'd be all for it as i can call it at the end of RefreshCache and it's ok if it takes 1 or 2 second to run. Thanks for your help! A few notes i forgot: 1) The project is a .net 2.0 website, i get the same results running it in a .net 4 pool, idem if i run it in a .net 4 pool and convert it to .net 4 and recompile. 2) These are results of a release build, so debug build can not be the issue. 3) And this is probably quite important, i do not get these issues at all in the webdev server, only in IIS, in the webdev i get memory consumption rather close to my actual consumption (well more, but not 5-10X more!)

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  • Detecting use after free() on windows. (dangling pointers)

    - by The Rook
    I'm trying to detect "Use after free()" bugs, otherwise known as "Dangling pointers". I know Valgrind can be used to detect "Use after free" bugs on the *nix platform, but what about windows? What if I don't have the source? Is there a better program than Valgrind for detecting all dangling pointers in a program? A free and open source would be preferred , but I'll use a commercial solution if it will get the job done.

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  • How to free control inside its event handler?

    - by lyborko
    Hi, Does anybody know the trick, how to free control inside its event handler ? According delphi help it is not possible... I want to free dynamicaly created TEdit, when Self.Text=''. TAmountEdit = class (TEdit) . . public procedure KeyUp(var Key: Word; Shift :TShiftState); end; procedure TAmountEdit.KeyUp(var Key: Word; Shift :TShiftState); begin inherited; if Text='' then Free; // after calling free, an exception arises end; How should do to achieve the same effect? Thanx

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  • problems with 'free' in C

    - by lego69
    hello, can somebody please explain can I free const char* ? I allocated new memory using malloc and when I'm trying to free it I always receive an error incompatible pointer type thanks in advance something like this char* name="Arnold"; const char* str=malloc(stlen(name)+1); free(str); <- here bug

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  • Looking for WebAii Framework free edition online - before the Telerik merge

    - by jdk
    Art of Test produced a nice UI testing tool for free -- WebAii Framework-- that I've been using to add client-side DOM unit tests to my projects. Recently they merged with Telerik and it's now a commercial product. From free to $1500 is suddenly very expensive. Does anybody know if the community edition is still available, or even the last free version is available for download? At least I can finish off with that.

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  • Les opérateurs historiques versent des dividendes « colossaux » et investissent peu, selon Free Mobile qui répond aux attaques

    Free Mobile : Xavier Niel répond aux attaques des opérateurs historiques Qui verseraient des dividendes « colossaux » mais qui investiraient peu De nombreuses voix se sont exprimées contre Free Mobile depuis son lancement. Les syndicats de France Telecom (pour qui « Free Mobile prend les français pour des cons »). Les filiales pros de la concurrence (qui qualifient Free d'« offre low cost inadaptée aux PME »). Des universitaires,

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  • Host website without domain name?

    - by Frost Shadow
    I have an old desktop sitting around I wanted to try making a server out of, but I don't want to pay to register a Domain Name. Is there a way I can host a website without a domain name, or to register a domain name for free? If I can't host a web page without a domain name, can I just access the files on the server through the internet some how without a domain name? Thanks for any insight!

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  • Free or Open Solution for Storing and Charting CSV data

    - by rrrfusco
    I'm presently storing CSV files, combining them, opening them in open office, creating pivot tables and then generating charts from the spreadsheet. I've looked at OOBase, but appending csv files to base is clunky for some reason. SQLite seems like a good database solution, but I've haven't found a good charting program that connects to it with ease. Although open office (or libreoffice) maintains the references and allows you to update the information, this process is far from efficient. There are too many steps and it seems one program should handle all of these tasks. A better program would be more intuitive, allow you to simply add inserts into a database, and include an interface for standard charting settings. EDIT Simplest Automated Analysis and Chart Generation Tool? The above answer references Spotfire and Tableau, each of which has a free 14 and 30 day trial. Each program is nicely streamlined and designed. I'm looking for a program between this quality and LibreOffice. Can you recommend a better open or free desktop solution for windows?

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  • Erase just the free space on my hard drive

    - by Patriot
    I'm about to give away an older computer with just the Windows XP operating system intact and all other programs uninstalled. However, upon peeking at the "free space" with software called "Recuva", I notice lots of deleted things that could be recoverable. Some of these include sensitive data files, pdfs, and other personal items that I would not want retrieved. I ran a program called "Eraser" to try and overwrite that data, but it failed to do an adequate job. I also tried to do the job with "Glary Utilities" but it failed too. Short of installing a new, very cheap hard drive and re-installing the bare bones operating system, I'm out of ideas. EDIT - WOW!!! I was not really expecting this many GREAT ideas. My next question is this. If I go the DBAN route and truely wipe the hard drive, then restore my disc image (I use Acronis True Image) will it also restore the free space data? Does imaging just copy readable data? I have an old image of when the OS was first installed.

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  • Windows XP seemingly out of resources but plenty of free RAM and swap available

    - by Artem Russakovskii
    This one has been bothering me for years and so far I couldn't find an adequate solution. The problem occurs on pretty much every XP install I've done. After opening a variety of programs or the system running existing programs for a while, Windows seemingly runs out of resources, without telling me. There's ALWAYS free RAM. For example, it just happened to me and I had over a gig of free RAM. There are no viruses, spyware, or other nonsense - it is a Windows resource problem, but the question is which resource is it running out of, how does one pinpoint it, and how does one prevent it? Sometimes, this happens after running specific programs - for example, today it happened when I started Photoshop CS4 and Flash CS4 at the same time. I also noticed that restarting The Bat (email client by Ritlabs) seems to get rid of this problem for a while but again, this happens on machines that don't even have The Bat installed. So what does exactly happen? The symptoms are: pressing alt-tab doesn't bring up the list anymore - it just jumps to the next window instantly, very similar to the way Alt-Esc works, however in this case, it's due to not having enough resources to bring up the alt-tab menu random programs would randomly crash, citing random errors, out of memory errors, system resources, inabilities to do system calls, etc. random programs would start missing random parts - for example, Firefox top menus might disappear, pull up partial selections, or not pull up anymore altogether. IE might lose a few of its toolbars. Some programs might fail to redraw or would just plain go gray where the UI used to be. Windows itself never complains about running out of RAM, virtual memory, or anything at all, yet it's running out of something. The only clue I was able to find and apply the fix today was this Desktop Heap Limitation. I haven't confirmed the fix working as not enough time passed. In the meantime, what are everyone's thoughts?

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  • How to use non-free drivers during debian install

    - by blokeley
    I'm trying to install debian stable using unetbootin. The install process fails with "network autoconfiguration failed", probably due to the ethernet driver not working. My Lenovo U350 has a Broadcom BCM57780 which does not seem to be supported out-of-the-box: there are various bug reports here, here and here, but I don't know if the fix has made it into debian (6) stable. One discussion says that you have to use an ethernet driver from the firmware-linux-nonfree package. I'm not sure that this is correct because the BCM57780 is not in the list of drivers in firmware-linux-nonfree. The specific question tree is: Is BCM57780 supported in debian stable? If so, what could be wrong? Should I install debian unstable instead? If not, do I need to use firmware-linux-nonfree during installation and, if so, how do I do this? Please note: I've used ubuntu and debian loads in the past but please post line-by-line guidance rather than some cryptic abbreviation of any instructions. Thanks in advance for any help. Updates: Debian stable with non-free drivers did not work. Debian unstable (free drivers only) did not work. Tried loading firmware-iwlwifi_0.28_all.deb from another USB stick to get wireless working rather than BCM57780. The .deb file was found but the network configuration still failed! That's it, I'm giving up. Unfortunately I'll use ubuntu even though the Unity user interface will be very unstable for the next couple of years :(

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  • C release dynamically allocated memory

    - by user1152463
    I have defined function, which returns multidimensional array. allocation for rows arr = (char **)malloc(size); allocation for columns (in loop) arr[i] = (char *)malloc(v); and returning type is char** Everything works fine, except freeing the memory. If I call free(arr[i]) and/or free(arr) on array returned by function, it crashes. Thanks for help EDIT:: allocating fuction pole = malloc(zaznamov); char ulica[52], t[52], datum[10]; float dan; int i = 0, v; *max = 0; while (!is_eof(f)) { get_record(t, ulica, &dan, datum, f); v = strlen(ulica) - 1; pole[i] = malloc(v); strcpy(pole[i], ulica); pole[i][v] = '\0'; if (v > *max) { *max = v; } i++; } return pole;` part of main where i am calling function pole = function(); releasing memory int i; for (i = 0; i < zaznamov; i++) { free(pole[i]); pole[i] = NULL; } free(pole); pole = NULL;

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  • How to use strtok in C properly so there is no memory leak?

    - by user246392
    I am somewhat confused by what happens when you call strtok on a char pointer in C. I know that it modifies the contents of the string, so if I call strtok on a variable named 'line', its content will change. Assume I follow the bellow approach: void function myFunc(char* line) { // get a pointer to the original memory block char* garbageLine = line; // Do some work // Call strtok on 'line' multiple times until it returns NULL // Do more work free(garbageLine); } Further assume that 'line' is malloced before it is passed to myFunc. Am I supposed to free the original string after using strtok or does it do the job for us? Also, what happens if 'line' is not malloced and I attempt to use the function above? Is it safer to do the following instead? (Assume the programmer won't call free if he knows the line is not malloced) Invocation char* garbageLine = line; myFunc(line); free(garbageLine); Function definition void function myFunc(char* line) { // Do some work // Call strtok on 'line' multiple times until it returns NULL // Do more work }

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  • How to reduce RAM consumption when my server is idle

    - by Julien Genestoux
    We use Slicehost, with 512MB instances. We run Ubuntu 9.10 on them. I installed a few packages, and I'm now trying to optimize RAM consumption before running anything on there. A simple ps gives me the list of running processes : # ps faux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:15 \_ [migration/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:01 \_ [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [watchdog/0] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:04 \_ [events/0] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [cpuset] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [khelper] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [async/mgr] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xenwatch] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xenbus] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:02 \_ [migration/1] root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [ksoftirqd/1] root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [watchdog/1] root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:07 \_ [events/1] root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:02 \_ [migration/2] root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [ksoftirqd/2] root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [watchdog/2] root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? R< Jan04 0:07 \_ [events/2] root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:04 \_ [migration/3] root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [ksoftirqd/3] root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [watchdog/3] root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [events/3] root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kintegrityd/0] root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kintegrityd/1] root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kintegrityd/2] root 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kintegrityd/3] root 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:01 \_ [kblockd/0] root 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kblockd/1] root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kblockd/2] root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kblockd/3] root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kseriod] root 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jan04 0:00 \_ [khungtaskd] root 35 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jan04 0:05 \_ [pdflush] root 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jan04 0:06 \_ [pdflush] root 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 1:02 \_ [kswapd0] root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [aio/0] root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [aio/1] root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [aio/2] root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [aio/3] root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [jfsIO] root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [jfsCommit] root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [jfsCommit] root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [jfsCommit] root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [jfsCommit] root 47 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [jfsSync] root 48 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfs_mru_cache] root 49 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfslogd/0] root 50 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfslogd/1] root 51 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfslogd/2] root 52 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfslogd/3] root 53 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsdatad/0] root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsdatad/1] root 55 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsdatad/2] root 56 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsdatad/3] root 57 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsconvertd/0] root 58 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsconvertd/1] root 59 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsconvertd/2] root 60 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [xfsconvertd/3] root 61 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [glock_workqueue] root 62 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [glock_workqueue] root 63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [glock_workqueue] root 64 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [glock_workqueue] root 65 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [delete_workqueu] root 66 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [delete_workqueu] root 67 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [delete_workqueu] root 68 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [delete_workqueu] root 69 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kslowd] root 70 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kslowd] root 71 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [crypto/0] root 72 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [crypto/1] root 73 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [crypto/2] root 74 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [crypto/3] root 77 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [net_accel/0] root 78 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [net_accel/1] root 79 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [net_accel/2] root 80 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [net_accel/3] root 81 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [sfc_netfront/0] root 82 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [sfc_netfront/1] root 83 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [sfc_netfront/2] root 84 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [sfc_netfront/3] root 310 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [kstriped] root 315 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ [ksnapd] root 1452 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jan04 4:31 \_ [kjournald] root 1 0.0 0.1 19292 948 ? Ss Jan04 0:15 /sbin/init root 1545 0.0 0.1 13164 1064 ? S Jan04 0:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon root 1547 0.0 0.1 17196 996 ? S<s Jan04 0:00 udevd --daemon root 1728 0.0 0.2 20284 1468 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ udevd --daemon root 1729 0.0 0.1 17192 792 ? S< Jan04 0:00 \_ udevd --daemon root 1881 0.0 0.0 8192 152 ? Ss Jan04 0:00 dd bs=1 if=/proc/kmsg of=/var/run/rsyslog/kmsg syslog 1884 0.0 0.2 185252 1200 ? Sl Jan04 1:00 rsyslogd -c4 103 1894 0.0 0.1 23328 700 ? Ss Jan04 1:08 dbus-daemon --system --fork root 2046 0.0 0.0 136 32 ? Ss Jan04 4:05 runsvdir -P /etc/service log: gems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'??from /mnt/app/superfeedr-firehoser/current/script/component:52?/opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/si root 2055 0.0 0.0 112 32 ? Ss Jan04 0:00 \_ runsv chef-client root 2060 0.0 0.0 132 40 ? S Jan04 0:02 | \_ svlogd -tt ./main root 2056 0.0 0.0 112 28 ? Ss Jan04 0:20 \_ runsv superfeedr-firehoser_2 root 2059 0.0 0.0 132 40 ? S Jan04 0:29 | \_ svlogd /var/log/superfeedr-firehoser_2 root 2057 0.0 0.0 112 28 ? Ss Jan04 0:20 \_ runsv superfeedr-firehoser_1 root 2062 0.0 0.0 132 44 ? S Jan04 0:26 \_ svlogd /var/log/superfeedr-firehoser_1 root 2058 0.0 0.0 18708 316 ? Ss Jan04 0:01 cron root 2095 0.0 0.1 49072 764 ? Ss Jan04 0:06 /usr/sbin/sshd root 9832 0.0 0.5 78916 3500 ? Ss 00:37 0:00 \_ sshd: root@pts/0 root 9846 0.0 0.3 17900 2036 pts/0 Ss 00:37 0:00 \_ -bash root 10132 0.0 0.1 15020 1064 pts/0 R+ 09:51 0:00 \_ ps faux root 2180 0.0 0.0 5988 140 tty1 Ss+ Jan04 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1 root 27610 0.0 1.4 47060 8436 ? S Apr04 2:21 python /usr/sbin/denyhosts --daemon --purge --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf root 22640 0.0 0.7 119244 4164 ? Ssl Apr05 0:05 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon root 10113 0.0 0.0 3904 316 ? Ss 09:46 0:00 /usr/sbin/collectdmon -P /var/run/collectdmon.pid -- -C /etc/collectd/collectd.conf root 10114 0.0 0.2 201084 1464 ? Sl 09:46 0:00 \_ collectd -C /etc/collectd/collectd.conf -f As you can see there is nothing serious here. If I sum up the RSS line on all this, I get the following : # ps -aeo rss | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}' 30096 Which makes sense. However, I have a pretty big surprise when I do a free: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 591180 343684 247496 0 25432 161256 -/+ buffers/cache: 156996 434184 Swap: 1048568 0 1048568 As you can see 60% of the available memory is already consumed... which leaves me with only 40% to run my own applications if I want to avoid swapping. Quite disapointing! 2 questions arise : Where is all this memory? How to take some of it back for my own apps?

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  • Etes-vous satisfait de Free Mobile ? Participez à notre sondage et aidez-nous à mieux évaluer la qualité du service du nouvel opérateur

    Etes-vous entièrement satisfait de Free Mobile ? Participez à notre sondage pour mieux évaluer la qualité du service du nouvel opérateur Free Mobile fonctionne. C'est un fait. Mais Free Mobile fonctionne quelquefois mal. Les uns diront qu'il faut lui laisser du temps. Les autres que Xavier Niel a fait trop de promesses, trop tôt. [IMG]http://ftp-developpez.com/gordon-fowler/FreeMobile/Free%20Mobile%202.png[/IMG] Loin de nous l'idée de trancher cette question. Mais une anecdote, survenue hier soir, nous a poussé à vous demander voter avis sur le sujet. Abonné à Free Mobile, un membre de la rédaction a essayé de passer un appel à u...

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  • Mysql hosting for application backend

    - by churnd
    I've been asked to help set up a way for a volunteer animal rescue organization to use an application to keep track of animals they've rescued. This application already exists, and can use it's own local database or connect to a MySQL database server. Since there are several volunteers spread out over a large region, a database server would be the best way to go. Money is a big problem, obviously. So, I'm looking for a very cheap or hopefully free database server or webhost that allows tcp/ip connections to their database servers. Backups will be handled on our end, so basically I just need the hosted mysql server. I've seen 000webhost.com, x10hosting, and xtreemhost, which all look promising, but they either aren't clear on remote mysql connections, or don't allow it at all. Looking forward to your recommendations! The animals thank you! :)

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  • Third party biometric software.

    - by Iszi
    Most of us with fingerprint readers and such devices probably use the software provided by the vendor, to enable biometric OS login or single sign-on functionality. However, I've recently wondered if there is any third-party software that will do the same thing? This would be similar to how you don't need the manufacturer's software to use a scanner, printer, or webcam - you just use their drivers and your choice of software. Is there anything like this for fingerprint readers or other biometric devices? Free or Open Source projects are preferred, but I'd be interested in learning about any existing solutions regardless. I personally am particularly interested in Windows-compatible software, but I'll leave the query open for any OS.

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  • Non-OEM Biometric Software?

    - by Iszi
    Most of us with fingerprint readers and such devices probably use the software provided by the vendor, to enable biometric OS login or single sign-on functionality. However, I've recently wondered if there is any third-party software that will do the same thing. This would be similar to how you don't need the manufacturer's software to use a scanner, printer, or webcam - you just use their drivers and your choice of software. Is there anything like this for fingerprint readers or other biometric devices? Free or Open Source projects are preferred, but I'd be interested in learning about any existing solutions regardless. I personally am particularly interested in Windows-compatible software, but I'll leave the query open for any OS.

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  • What's more cost effective, Hosting your web startup on Foss or Windows?

    - by user37899
    Hi, Not coming from the windows world, I'm confused about licensing. I think my knowledge may be out of date. Before we gave up with windows web servers (IIS 2), we used to have to pay Client Access licence's. This worked out quite expensive. Is it cheaper to host 1000's of users on Windows than use Free open source software tools? http://serverfault.com/questions/124329/network-load-balancing-efficience-and-limits. This post suggests I can pay $15 a month, for unlimited users. I certainly hope that this is unbiased view, I am a professional and use the right technology for the right job. I hope i am not feeling the wrath of a windows (or linux for that matter) fanboy. Perhaps a Microsoft certified Licensing person can clear this up. Should i be recommending to startups windows servers and products over lamp? Cheers!

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  • Lock-Free, Wait-Free and Wait-freedom algorithms for non-blocking multi-thread synchronization.

    - by GJ
    In multi thread programming we can find different terms for data transfer synchronization between two or more threads/tasks. When exactly we can say that some algorithem is: 1)Lock-Free 2)Wait-Free 3)Wait-Freedom I understand what means Lock-free but when we can say that some synchronization algorithm is Wait-Free or Wait-Freedom? I have made some code (ring buffer) for multi-thread synchronization and it use Lock-Free methods but: 1) Algorithm predicts maximum execution time of this routine. 2) Therad which call this routine at beginning set unique reference, what mean that is inside of this routine. 3) Other threads which are calling the same routine check this reference and if is set than count the CPU tick count (measure time) of first involved thread. If that time is to long interrupt the current work of involved thread and overrides him job. 4) Thread which not finished job because was interrupted from task scheduler (is reposed) at the end check the reference if not belongs to him repeat the job again. So this algorithm is not really Lock-free but there is no memory lock in use, and other involved threads can wait (or not) certain time before overide the job of reposed thread. Added RingBuffer.InsertLeft function: function TgjRingBuffer.InsertLeft(const link: pointer): integer; var AtStartReference: cardinal; CPUTimeStamp : int64; CurrentLeft : pointer; CurrentReference: cardinal; NewLeft : PReferencedPtr; Reference : cardinal; label TryAgain; begin Reference := GetThreadId + 1; //Reference.bit0 := 1 with rbRingBuffer^ do begin TryAgain: //Set Left.Reference with respect to all other cores :) CPUTimeStamp := GetCPUTimeStamp + LoopTicks; AtStartReference := Left.Reference OR 1; //Reference.bit0 := 1 repeat CurrentReference := Left.Reference; until (CurrentReference AND 1 = 0)or (GetCPUTimeStamp - CPUTimeStamp > 0); //No threads present in ring buffer or current thread timeout if ((CurrentReference AND 1 <> 0) and (AtStartReference <> CurrentReference)) or not CAS32(CurrentReference, Reference, Left.Reference) then goto TryAgain; //Calculate RingBuffer NewLeft address CurrentLeft := Left.Link; NewLeft := pointer(cardinal(CurrentLeft) - SizeOf(TReferencedPtr)); if cardinal(NewLeft) < cardinal(@Buffer) then NewLeft := EndBuffer; //Calcolate distance result := integer(Right.Link) - Integer(NewLeft); //Check buffer full if result = 0 then //Clear Reference if task still own reference if CAS32(Reference, 0, Left.Reference) then Exit else goto TryAgain; //Set NewLeft.Reference NewLeft^.Reference := Reference; SFence; //Try to set link and try to exchange NewLeft and clear Reference if task own reference if (Reference <> Left.Reference) or not CAS64(NewLeft^.Link, Reference, link, Reference, NewLeft^) or not CAS64(CurrentLeft, Reference, NewLeft, 0, Left) then goto TryAgain; //Calcolate result if result < 0 then result := Length - integer(cardinal(not Result) div SizeOf(TReferencedPtr)) else result := cardinal(result) div SizeOf(TReferencedPtr); end; //with end; { TgjRingBuffer.InsertLeft } RingBuffer unit you can find here: RingBuffer, CAS functions: FockFreePrimitives, and test program: RingBufferFlowTest Thanks in advance, GJ

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  • Which is the best .NET image capture API for me to use?

    - by David
    I have been tasked with integrating image acquisition into a .NET application and I have been looking for an API to use for performing this function. I have come across several "standard" APIs, some have been in existence for a long time, some not so long. I have looked at references to ISIS, TWAIN, WIA, and SANE (said to be mostly *nix). They all appear to be Win32 libraries except for SANE, and I was wondering what the current recommendations are for talking to image acquisition devices (scanners)? Feel free to recommend something else if you feel it is better. I'm looking for open source options. Edit: I put open source, when what I actually meant was free. using WIA or TWAIN is fine since they are free even though they are proprietary interfaces.

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  • Public free time server

    - by JL.
    I need to get the current datetime from a reliable source, because its likely that the local system time could be changed. Is it possible to get this from an internet time server, one that has close to 100% uptime, preferably via a webservice method, something that is free, and I have to stress absolutely reliable? I would hope an offering from Microsoft, or the organisation responsible for keeping global time.

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