Why does my Delphi program's memory continue to grow?

Question

I am using Delphi 2009 which has the FastMM4 memory manager built into it.

My program reads in and processes a large dataset. All memory is freed correctly whenever

Answer 1

You are half-leaking memory; obviously. You are leaking memory while the program is running, but when you close the program, your dataset is properly freed so FastMM (rightfully) does not report it.

See this for details: My program never releases the memory back. Why?