Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-26 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
answers my question. thanks. i keep eye on threads about bugs that could affect my projects, and memory leaks are a big danger since once of my apps is intended to never close. Cheers...i hope you find the reason for the runaways mem usage. On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 9:08 PM Stephen MacLean via use-

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-26 Thread Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
> On Aug 26, 2018, at 8:14 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: > > just wondering whats the last version in which it didn't do this? > If this was to me, I wouldn’t know… this project was created in LC 9. Best, Steve ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-26 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
just wondering whats the last version in which it didn't do this? On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:52 PM Stephen MacLean via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Here is one from when the app hit the half way point in it’s processing > run: > > Process: LiveCode-Bu

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-26 Thread Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
Hi Mark, Here is one from when the app hit the half way point in it’s processing run: Process: LiveCode-Business [799] Path:/Applications/LiveCode Business 9.0.1 (rc 2).app/Contents/MacOS/LiveCode-Business Load Address:0x10d387000 Identifier: com.runrev.livecode Vers

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
> On Aug 13, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is there any way to split up the processing of a single batch into pieces, > each run in its own process (sequentially?) - that approach actually gives > you two things - (1) a fix to the exhaustion problem you are h

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2018-08-13 20:01, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, Yes, doing quite a bit, which LC handles just fine:) Except for these with big queries;) I do want to mention that I call plenty of functions, so it’s not a real tight loop, just a loop with a lot going on. Ok, will do the ne

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
Hi Mark, Yes, doing quite a bit, which LC handles just fine:) Except for these with big queries;) I do want to mention that I call plenty of functions, so it’s not a real tight loop, just a loop with a lot going on. Ok, will do the next time I run one of these… These big batches take about 5

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
Yes, it’s on MacOS 10.12.6. No, this is in use… and cause my open apps, including LC, to be “paused” saying that I had run out of memory. I have 32GB of real RAM and a 4TB SSD that the OS sits on, with half of that free. The swap file had grown to almost 30GB in size, with most of it used., wh

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2018-08-13 19:42, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode wrote: Anyone experience this before? Any tips for controlling it? Well it sounds like you are doing a fair bit there so its really hard to say whether or not there is a memory leak. The first thing to do is to find out whether that is a

Re: LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Is this on a Mac? I know that for Macs, memory can be "in use" by an app, but the app will release it on request. "wired" memory is that which an app has allocated and will not release. Right now I have 11+ of 16 gigs of memory in use, but only 2.32 of it is "wired". If you look at the Activity

LC 9 and Memory

2018-08-13 Thread Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
Hi All, I’m running into an issue where LC 9.0.1 RC1 Business is running a process and is gobbling up memory and then not releasing it until I quit LC. Like 22GB of memory! Let me describe what I’m doing: I’m getting a query back from a MYSQL DB that contains 32k records, all text. Using revQu