What are possible reasons for memory consumption ...

[Douglas Ruisaard]

To help determine if Brian's suggestion is occurring, you could put the following line in your "self perpetuating" code (assuming you're not running the code on a Mobile device which have no "messsage box") just before the "send... in x time ":

put the pendingmessages

If you see ANY output, then you've got multiple overlapping messages ... again, this assumes you only have ONE "loop" running.  Perhaps you can send the "offending" section of code for analysis?

Douglas Ruisaard
Trilogy Software
(250) 573-3935
> 
> Is it possible that multiple overlapping messages are being spawned?
> 
> You mention that the checks happen every 250ms... are you doing a send in time at the end of the check
> or at the start?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Jul 7, 2018, 7:21 PM -0400, Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > So i've been watching this running standalone a while .... and it
> > seems to have stopped for now...I'm going to keep it running and see
> > how high up it gets.
> >
> > Its like the engine is caching system events or something .... I'll
> > post again in a few hours to see if its gotten any higher than this.....
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Tom Glod <tom at makeshyft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I have a stack that has 2 or 3 self perpetuating messages which do a
> > > few checks and the like....they run every 250 milliseconds or so.
> > >
> > > There is no input data into the program unless I specifically send
> > > it there.
> > >
> > > but while my program is sitting there ....repeating its loops and
> > > checks for incoming input ...... the memory consumption is steadily
> > > going up by .1 megabytes at a time.
> > >
> > > I have watched my global variables , there is nothing being added to
> > > them and most handlers have local variables that clear out when the
> > > handler finishes.
> > >
> > > This happens in IDE and standalone.
> > >
> > > This app is made to stay in memory so this is not acceptable,
> > > because after 2 days it will get up to 2gb or whatever....so i
> > > cannot let this remain.
> > >
> > > maybe if i let it sit there it will eventually clear out ..but i
> > > haven't seen that happen yet.
> > >
> > > I just don't know where to look. maybe i just found a memory leak
> > > ....Thanks for any input
> > >