RE: - Memory leak bug report

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:37:06 +0000

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Hi Chris,

are you really shure?

> If you make an explicit call to Kernel.Collect in the loop
> e.g. after the call to Sleep, then the memory of the unused
> variables is successfully collected and the leak 'goes away'.
>

I tried that (without explicitely linking an app) and
when you wait some minutes the non-responding BlackBox
slowly increases the amount of allocated memory ...

regards

--
	Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
	Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Behalf Of CFB Software
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 3:34 PM
> To: BlackBox Mailing List
> Subject: [BlackBox] - Memory leak bug report
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> > Behalf Of Alexander Iljin
> > Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 6:15 PM
> > To: BlackBox Mailing List
> > Subject: [BlackBox] - Memory leak bug report
> > 
> >   I think the Sleep has nothing to do with it, since we don't use 
> > HostMenus' main event-processing loop in this case.
> >   The garbage collector should be invoked by the NEW routine
> > (implemented
> > in the Kernel module) when there is not enough free memory 
> to allocate
> > the requested object. For some reason it does not collect unused
> > variables, but requests more memory from the OS instead.
> >   As Ilya Ermakov at oberoncore.ru have noted, this may have 
> > something to
> > do with the fact that file variables have a finalizer attached. The
> > finalized variables are handled differently, cf. Kernel.Collect and
> > Kernel.FastCollect.
> > 
> 
> An additional clue:
> 
> If you make an explicit call to Kernel.Collect in the loop 
> e.g. after the call to Sleep, then the memory of the unused 
> variables is successfully collected and the leak 'goes away'.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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