If left over night it's over 1gig!!!

What game are you playing that you're "leaving over night"???

It's BBS software called MajorBBS. Dosbox runs it great, but this memory leak will cause problems hogging so much ram. This shouldn't happen. It has not crashed yet, but it's robbing memory. Any ideas how to stop this memory leak?

This shouldn't happen.

Depending on how the game interacts with the directory caching this can of course happen.

But MajorBBS doesn't sound like a game anyways, so good luck.

Caching Sounds good 😀 Can I put a cap on it or disable caching?

disk images don't use the directory cache.

High memory use can occur when there are many incomplete searches for individual files. Don't know if that's the case here, but it's a definite possibility. There was some kind of security application with the issue, which you can read about here, and maybe the workaround program in that thread will work in your case as well.

You guys are brilliant! So far so good! I think this is my solution too! I'm gonna test it over night to verify it and will give a certified answer tomorrow!

Thanks so much for the help guys! This dosbox program is A W E S O M E !!! I love it!

You also might want to consider using hal's megabuild of DOSBox, because it rolls the clock over at midnight (I think). Official DOSBox does not advance the date or roll the clock over, which can be a problem for some applications that are left running "24/7".

I do use the Megabuild6 version because I need the packet driver support 😀 And I must say, it is sweet!

So far so good on the FFCLOSE TSR. I do believe this is indeed the answer!

Thank you all 😀 Excellent collaboration!

Certified and has my seal of approval. Ran over night and only rose by a couple of bytes (instead of megs or gigs!) as stated it would in the other thread.

Fantastic software 😀 Thanks to all!