osd memory leaks

[birty]

there is defaintely a memory leak in the osd, whenever a osd is drawn about 8K of memory is lost, an easy way to see this is to open an osd menu and move the mouse over diferent items, each time the selection is changed the osd is redrawn and 8K of memory is lost

[Promixis]

can you post the exact code for ron to look at.... we have been hunting a bug here

[birty]

MyMenu=osd.Classes.Menu:New();
MyMenu:Show(true,"Select Task",{"Media Player","Applications"});

[mhwlng]

I don't use the OSD myself, so I might be wrong...

But could it be caused by the garbage collection mechanism in lua ?

when calling lua functions, memory is used up, which is only reclaimed when the garbage collector is activated.

(You can force this by calling collectgarbage(); manually)


Marcel

[birty]

it might be but ron appears to have set the garbeage collector threshold to be quite high, it appears to only trigger when about 5mb of garbage needs to be collected

[Mastiff]

I wonder if this can be the reason that Girder crashes after maybe 60-100 CID OSD messages on my system.

[Promixis]

Alan, what happens if you use

collectgarbage ()

[birty]

yep that stops the memory going up

[Promixis]

yep that stops the memory going up

so no leak?

[birty]

nope