[bug] strange memory leak in LC

[Andre Garzia]

Sean,

The stack was not running anything. It was simply opened. I don’t believe it would leak like that. Anyway, I’m monitoring to see if it happens again.

A

> On 26 Mar 2021, at 13:01, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow, Andre, that's impressive. That amounts to about 34MB per minute over
> 48hrs. I've had a pretty massive stack (226MB file at the moment) on my Mac
> sitting here over the last week. Looking in the activity monitor, LC has
> 987MB associated with it. and watching it over a period of time it remains
> stable and even went down a tiny bit.
> 
> I wonder if this is more an issue with Rosetta2 in this instance. Maybe
> something in LC leaks because of the Rosetta transformation of the binary.
> Perhaps, as a test, open the same stack on a non-AppleSilicon Mac and watch
> them both for how much memory they expend over a period of time.
> 
> All the best with that.
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 10:03, Andre Garzia via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have no idea what happened. I’m running LC 9.6.2-rc-3 on macOS Big Sur
>> on M1 ISA (so it is running under Rosetta 2). I kept the IDE opened for a
>> couple days, I was working on a gaziliion stacks at the same time and was
>> not yet ready to close them.
>> 
>> The stacks were not doing anything, they were not running “send in time”
>> commands or doing any kind of processing, they were just opened. Then macOS
>> showed me a dialog I have never ever seen on macOS 10.x, a memory
>> exhaustion dialog. Looking closer at it, LiveCode was using 100 GB of
>> memory, as in Gigabyte, as can be seen on this screenshot:
>> 
>> http://andregarzia.com/img/shots/lc-memory-leak.png <
>> http://andregarzia.com/img/shots/lc-memory-leak.png>
>> 
>> I remember things like the “default button” causing leaks due to the
>> animation and so on, but all I had was a bunch of custom stacks open and
>> the script editor focused. Thats it. It was open since yesterday.
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