Issue 9378 - Identified memory leak due to unclosed process spool32.exe
Summary: Identified memory leak due to unclosed process spool32.exe
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: Other Windows 98
: P2 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stephan_schaefer
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Blocks: 88888
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Reported: 2002-11-19 15:12 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2008-09-12 09:08 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2002-11-19 15:12:15 UTC 
Related to issue 1915 : I filed a new issue, because I'm not sure, that 
otherwise the issue would be followed (issue 1915 considered to be closed).

OS: Windows 98
OpenOffice 1.0

When opening OpenOffice and as soon as OO is open closing it, OO does not 
release about 20 Mb of memory !!!
If I check the running processes before and after running OO, spool32.exe(under 
windows directory) is running, although it wasn't before launching OO.

Therefore, I do heavily suspect, that there is a missing close statement in the 
code.

Yours,

Philippe
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2002-11-19 15:19:36 UTC 
Hi Hasan,
do you know wether there is a problem with with spool32?
Hi Phil,
Is it there a running quickstarter on you system?
Does it occure in OOo 1.0.1 also?
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-11-19 19:10:24 UTC 
> Is it there a running quickstarter on you system?
I don't understand, what is a quickstarter?
To test I just boot my PC, when it's ready I launch the "system 
monitor" to
see the memory usage, as well as a program which tells me all running
process.

I launch OO 1.0 and see 2 new processes, which are soffice.exe and
spool32.exe; my RAM is then eaten up of about 30Mb.

I close OO and see, that spool32.exe is still running and my RAM is 
still
eaten up of 20Mb.

> Does it occure in OOo 1.0.1 also?
I haven't OO 1.0.1 and do not wish to upgrade OO before the next major
release.
Comment 3 h.ilter 2002-11-28 08:59:02 UTC 
HI->SSA: I observed that Office start the spool32.exe in Win98 and
still present after closed Office. This occurs, when the printdriver
is adjusted to spool and it takes 1000k.
The behavior in win2000 and XP is not able to compare. It seems the
spool job on both runs with and without Office. You can kill the spool
in XP but you can't do this in win2000.
Very special task
Comment 4 stephan_schaefer 2003-01-06 08:12:07 UTC 
spool32.exe is a system task that belongs to the Win98 core printing
system. it's lifetime cannot be influenced by any API call.
Comment 5 stephan_schaefer 2003-01-06 08:15:41 UTC 
Behaviour cannot be changed -> closing this issue.