On 18/08/2016 19:09, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
At 3:28 PM +0100 8/18/2016, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
The real problem is that the script was written originally 13 years ago, and
the basic architecture was to load everything into large global arrays for
cleanliness.
I've had ugly crashes with large or complex arrays (that weren't anywhere near
the 4G limit). There are (or perhaps were - this may have been fixed in the
8.x cycle) some problems with the way such arrays were structured in memory,
IIRC.
Which engine version are you using? (Apologies if you already said that and I
missed this.)
Every version from 2.4 to 8.1!
One problem of course is that over this long my memory fades - checking the
script I see that it has a number of instances of
wait for 1 second with messages -- theory that this might improve garbage
collection
which is why I thought I'd established that this doesn't work; although the
latest problem is arising earlier in the process than previously, so I'll
review to see whether I could also do this earlier, in case it does in fact help.
Ben
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