Ben Rubinstein wrote:
Please refresh my memory: is there any way to cause/allow garbage to be
collected without ending all script running?
I have an app which process large amounts of data. It runs fine on Mac, but on
Windows intermittently (but not frequently as the application data source,
which fluctuates, is gradually increasing) as the total memory in use
approaches 2GB, the app faults.
Obviously this is very distressing for me and my client, because the app has
lost control at this point and can't even tell us what's happening (it
normally runs on a schedule on a VM, so it often takes days to discover that
the system downstream hasn't been updated for a while, and trace back to find
that the LC app is halted).
I have managed to reduce the incidence of this by breaking the processing into
two parts, but this is undesirable for various reasons, and only palliative.
What I really want is a way for my main function to invoke garbage collection
after calling some of the larger processing steps.
Is there any way to do this? Am I right in thinking that the issue is related
to LC's total memory usage reaching 2GB on Windows? Are there any useful
functions (e.g. the "hasMemory" function is documented as "only partially
implemented, and may not return useful values on some platforms", which makes
it seem pretty pointless...)?
LC's hasMemory function was useful in Mac Classic where it was first
introduced to the xTalk world in SuperCard, but with modern memory
management it would be difficult if not impossible to try to make it
work as it used to, allowing an app to modify the system's control of
memory.
Monte's tips were great (thanks Monte, love learning engine details like
that!), but since memory is only problematic on Windows but not Mac, I
wonder if this may be merely a leak that could be fixed?
Are you deleting variables when they're no longer needed? Does
introducing a periodic idle help?
Can you tell us a bit about what the app is working on, particularly the
size of the data and what it's doing with it?
If it's a leak we should be able to hone in on what's causing it. And
if it's an expected behavior that needs tailoring for your algo, I'll
bet we can find a way to make it work as well on Win as it does on Mac.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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