EWF Storing Multiple Files with same name ???

[Justin L Hudson]

Here is my issue. I am running a system that will cycle through files
replacing the oldest with the newest. My RAM overlay will fill up to the
point it crashes and it seems to keep growing after the cycle starts over.
Example being; I have a file called "exception1.log", I will delete this
file and write a new one with the same name. When this happens the RAM
overlay space gets bigger (less space). Shouldn't the overlay let go of the
file being replaced? Because if I was to commit the changes it would keep
the last file I change not the ones before it?

Thanks,
Justin

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Justin,

EWF operate on sector lelel that is much lover and independent on filesystem that you use. So basicaly each change that you do on
your FS will either keep mem usage constant or increase it. There will be no descrese if you delete files.

So each sector that is changed for first time will eat some chuck of your memory, and only way to limit its size is by hawing less
space on protected partition what will be changed then amount of memory you have :-(

Regards,
Slobodan