I am running Dude ver 0.91 and have experienced memory overloads on ocassion. I am also getting an error stating something about the version of the server not matching the version of the software (I will pay more attention to the exact error next time).
I came in this morning and found that winXP was reporting my virtual memory to be low. I took a look at the processes as I suspected dude. I found both dude and dudew However, it didn’t seem to show either was using very much memory. Memory usage, including swap, was at 699MB. I shut down the dude process and immediately memory usage dropped to 155MB so it was indeed dude eating up all the memory.
It seems that this is worse with remote access (using http).
Not sure if this is a known issue or not, but reporting it for your information and comment.