Comments on: Yahoo Messenger Emoticons Leak Like a Sieve

By: KC

KC — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:05:52 +0000

I came here looking for an answer to the handle leak and may have found atleast one scenario – when a message window is minimized(or in the background) and a message arrives and it starts blinking, I have noticed an initial jump of 4 handles followed by 2 Handles foe every blinkgin…this is the ONLY process which consumes so many HANDLES.

By: Eagle_Kiwi (New Zealand)

Eagle_Kiwi (New Zealand) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:59:08 +0000

Very interesting indeed – thank you for that, James.
(I found this page – among others – while searching for understanding on MY YM woes )

I don’t understand programming in depth (I DID 40 years ago, but seems a few things have changed since then!) – but I’ve found a similar(?) phenomenon with Handles (whatever they are!!).

When I first load YM Task Manager may show it with about 1500 handles – there’s usually also one SvcHost with about 1500 too, but no other processes over about 500.
But it seems that as time goes by YM increases this – sometimes up to 5000 or 6000 – at which time usually it (or other things) begin misbehaving, so I exit YM then restart it.
Sounds similar to your “10000 GDI objects” scenario!

I wish I understood such things more, then perhaps I could adapt my style to avoid, or cope with, such dumb programming.

By: calin

calin — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:40:46 +0000

Yeah I have the same problem and what can I say… They simply sucks and I don’t understand those programmers … (