Questions tagged [fault-tolerant-heap]
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How do I turn off the fault tolerant heap?
I've recently started seeing this line in my Visual Studio 2005 output window when launching my application:
FTH: (7156): *** Fault tolerant heap shim applied to current process. This is usually due to previous crashes. ***
I've tried turning off…

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What is Windows 7's Fault Tolerant Heap?
I'd like some technical information on how it works, and how I can disable or enumerate the Fault Tolerant Heap shims that are associated with processes that crash frequently. Is there a heuristic of some sort that Windows 7 uses to decide when to…

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Is Fault Tolerant Heap bad in developing Qt C++ app?
I am coding Qt C++ app and suddenly Fault Tolerant Heap appears. Everything works fine but after run of app its writes to console:
FTH: (some_number): *** Fault tolerant heap shim applied to current process. This is usually due to previous crashes.…

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How do I turn off the fault tolerant heap on Windows 8?
This is the same question as on turn off FTH but on Windows8 so maybe there's a different answer. I have tried ALL the suggestions there and it still won't go away. I'm trying to debug a 32 bit program on 64 bit Windows Pro 8. I've tried setting all…

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'Fault Tolerant Heap' causing problems
My program's performance is sometimes being cut in half due to Windows 7 embedding a 'fault tolerant heap'. There's not much info out there about the FTH but this is what I've been able to ascertain.
The FTH usually gets added due to heap errors.…

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Dealing with an object corrupting the heap
In my application I am creating an object pretty much like this :
connect() {
mVHTGlove = new vhtGlove(params);
}
and once I am about to close application I call this one :
disconnect() {
if (mVHTGlove)
delete mVHTGlove;
}
This call…

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