I used to work on some data processing software for a particular measuring device (is that vague enough for you? Sorry, I'm just being overly protective). I would get reports that the software was slowing down if it was used for days at a time. I would occasionally look into the issue, but it stuck around for months until one of our in-house users was able to show me the problem in vivo.
The problem itself was a memory leak, but for some reason I couldn't get that "ah ha!" moment until I saw it in context.
I guess I didn't spend all that long over all debugging the issue, but it played on my mind for all that time.
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I used to work on some data processing software for a particular measuring device (is that vague enough for you? Sorry, I'm just being overly protective). I would get reports that the software was slowing down if it was used for days at a time. I would occasionally look into the issue, but it stuck around for months until one of our in-house users was able to show me the problem in vivo.
The problem itself was a memory leak, but for some reason I couldn't get that "ah ha!" moment until I saw it in context.
I guess I didn't spend all that long over all debugging the issue, but it played on my mind for all that time.