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I keep getting memory errors in my Reporter window and finding my Task
Manager full of dynamic areas of exactly 208480K with names like mmap#1
or mmap#5 which persist even after quitting all likely culprit
applications - which software is filling up the computer's memory with
these, and is it a bug?
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In message <5d993ef15c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

I keep getting memory errors in my Reporter window and finding my Task Manager full of dynamic areas of exactly 208480K with names like mmap#1
or mmap#5 which persist even after quitting all likely culprit
applications - which software is filling up the computer's memory with
these, and is it a bug?

I believe mmap = memory map. per an online search
Iris seems to be one application that uses it. when you quit it, the mmap
is reduced or removed
I don't think it is a bug.

Maybe you need to let Martin Avison know about the error in reporter.
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In article <11db74f15c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

In message <5d993ef15c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

I keep getting memory errors in my Reporter window and finding my
Task Manager full of dynamic areas of exactly 208480K with names
like mmap#1 or mmap#5 which persist even after quitting all
likely culprit applications - which software is filling up the
computer's memory with these, and is it a bug?

I believe mmap = memory map. per an online search Iris seems to be
one application that uses it. when you quit it, the mmap is
reduced or removed I don't think it is a bug.

Maybe you need to let Martin Avison know about the error in
reporter.

I agree mmap#n areas are asociated with Iris, but I suspect Reporter
was just reporting errors in Iris that are causing the areas to
accumulate? Perhaps Harriet can clarify.
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On 1 Jul 2026 as I do recall,
Martin wrote:

In article <11db74f15c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

In message <5d993ef15c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

I keep getting memory errors in my Reporter window and finding my
Task Manager full of dynamic areas of exactly 208480K with names
like mmap#1 or mmap#5 which persist even after quitting all
likely culprit applications - which software is filling up the
computer's memory with these, and is it a bug?

I believe mmap = memory map. per an online search Iris seems to be
one application that uses it. when you quit it, the mmap is
reduced or removed I don't think it is a bug.

Maybe you need to let Martin Avison know about the error in
reporter.

I agree mmap#n areas are asociated with Iris, but I suspect Reporter
was just reporting errors in Iris that are causing the areas to
accumulate? Perhaps Harriet can clarify.

Yes, the Reporter window is just displaying the error reports -
presumably because the application in question (I'm fairly sure it's
NetSurf giving the actual errors) is RISC OS native and is using
Reporter's SWIs in its debugging. :-)

To clarify: these are messages appearing (in black) in the Reporter
window and not Wimp errors being logged by Reporter, e.g.

dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_claim_pages:151 - Memory cannot be moved dynamicarea_claim_pages:151 - Memory cannot be moved
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Bonjour,
In message <0a6d7cf15c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

On 1 Jul 2026 as I do recall,
Martin wrote:

In article <11db74f15c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

In message <5d993ef15c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

I keep getting memory errors in my Reporter window and finding my
Task Manager full of dynamic areas of exactly 208480K with names
like mmap#1 or mmap#5 which persist even after quitting all
likely culprit applications - which software is filling up the
computer's memory with these, and is it a bug?

I believe mmap = memory map. per an online search Iris seems to be
one application that uses it. when you quit it, the mmap is
reduced or removed I don't think it is a bug.

Maybe you need to let Martin Avison know about the error in
reporter.

I agree mmap#n areas are asociated with Iris, but I suspect Reporter
was just reporting errors in Iris that are causing the areas to
accumulate? Perhaps Harriet can clarify.

Yes, the Reporter window is just displaying the error reports -
presumably because the application in question (I'm fairly sure it's
NetSurf giving the actual errors) is RISC OS native and is using
Reporter's SWIs in its debugging. :-)

To clarify: these are messages appearing (in black) in the Reporter
window and not Wimp errors being logged by Reporter, e.g.

dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_map_pages:240 - Bad page number
dynamicarea_claim_pages:151 - Memory cannot be moved dynamicarea_claim_pages:151 - Memory cannot be moved

Do dynamicarea_map_pages correspond to dynamic area numbers?
It seems to me that all DA numbers are above 255.
Hariett, are you still using your ARMX6?
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