It may help to put a wait x milliseconds with messages in the repeat loop. This will give the engine a chance to do housecleaning.
Bob S > On Jul 7, 2018, at 16:15 , Tom Glod via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I have a stack that has 2 or 3 self perpetuating messages which do a few > checks and the like....they run every 250 milliseconds or so. > > There is no input data into the program unless I specifically send it there. > > but while my program is sitting there ....repeating its loops and checks > for incoming input ...... the memory consumption is steadily going up by .1 > megabytes at a time. > > I have watched my global variables , there is nothing being added to them > and most handlers have local variables that clear out when the handler > finishes. > > This happens in IDE and standalone. > > This app is made to stay in memory so this is not acceptable, because after > 2 days it will get up to 2gb or whatever....so i cannot let this remain. > > maybe if i let it sit there it will eventually clear out ..but i haven't > seen that happen yet. > > I just don't know where to look. maybe i just found a memory leak > ....Thanks for any input > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode