[bug] strange memory leak in LC

[John Balgenorth]

I am not personally using Bug Sur but if you make a standalone does
it leak  memory too or is this only with the development system?

JB

> On Mar 26, 2021, at 7:29 PM, scott--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> I’m running Big Sur and just got a warning from the OS that I was out of application memory. Livecode was using 133.52 GB of memory.  It had been open for a couple days but it wasn’t doing anything.
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>> On Mar 26, 2021, at 6:53 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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