Switching from Earth to Sky causes infinite memory leak loop, crashing comput...


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Switching from Earth to Sky causes infinite memory leak loop, crashing computer

This does not seem to happen immediately, but when it does (on 4 separate 
machines so far), the consequences are dire.
This is hopefully to support a NASA mission GLAST, to allow correlation of 
simulated and detected features with a representation of the raw data (the 
overlay). We are not compeletely sure that the overlay is at fault, but the 
only other kml elements are simple placemarks: they can be found in the same 
directory as the overlay.

Comments: [Toby] The way to trigger this seems to be to switch back to Earth 
after loading the overlay in Sky mode. Then back to Sky and...

Relevant Application(s): 
Google Earth 4.2.0198.2451 (beta) Windows XP, 2003, Vista

Steps to Reproduce: 
Loading an overlay with simulated gamma-ray intensity

Supporting Files: 
the overlay: 
http://glast.phys.washington.edu/sc2/google-sky/sc2_photondensity_layer0.png
a kml file that overlays it: 
http://glast.phys.washington.edu/sc2/google-sky/overlays.kml

Workarounds: 
No: in fact it seems to infect the account, so even after reinstalling and/or 
cleaning the cache, it is not possible to again use Sky mode (Bug in 
uninstaller)

Reported By: Toby

Original issue reported on code.google.com by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2008 at 10:48

Alvin050789 / kml-samples

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