RE: [flexcoders] Adobe, Help Memory Leaking !!

[Ted Patrick]

Rich,   No. I have yet to run this app and see 300MB of RAM consumed ever.  Mine gets a ceiling of like 12MB and never goes higher.   When the GC runs it destroys objects within the totalMemory within the player. When the player needs more memory for new objects, it adds memory if the gc cannot dispose of what is needed. It is true to say that on machines with ample resources, the player may accumulate more resources but this is true with all applications.   I have to say I think you may be looking at a bug specific to your os/system configuration. Is the behavior browser specific?   Just to be sure: 300 megabytes = 314,572,800 bytes   Ted Patrick Flex Evangelist Adobe Systems Incorporated     From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rich Tretola Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:09 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Adobe, Help Memory Leaking !!   I first noticed this issue while looking at the task manager and seeing firefox and IE memory usage going up and up to well over 300 megs of ram.  If I am running the app on a machine with less ram will the browser use less memory?  Is that what you are saying?  Rich On 8/23/06, Ted Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]com> wrote: Rich,   Ok got some information for you:   flash.system.System.totalMemory - The amount of memory (in bytes) currently in use by Adobe® Flash® Player.   A better way to think about this is allocated memory. When the player needs more memory it acquires it from the OS/Browser in use. The player doesn't necessarily give the memory back. Within that memory in use are the objects being used. When GC runs, it disposes objects within the allocated memory but doesn't give memory back to the OS/Browser.   The GC is running and collecting objects, but f lash.system.System.totalMemory is not the right way to see this happening.   Ted Patrick Flex Evangelist Adobe Systems Incorporated      From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com] On Behalf Of Rich Tretola Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Adobe, Help Memory Leaking !!   I am testing locally on a pentium m 1.6 2 gigs ram FP 9.16 I have tried firefox, and ie on winxp On my sample, if you change the number to like 500 and create 500 buttons and then change it back to 3 buttons, why can I not recover the memory from the 497 buttons that are no longer being used? This is a huge probolem on my app because it has like 30 Repeaters that are constantly changing dataProviders on user decisions and the memory is out of control, eventually crashing the browser (remember I have 2 gigs of ram). Rich On 8/23/06, Ted Patrick < [EMAIL PROTECTED]com> wrote: Rich,   The app takes memory up 7MB then drops back to 5Mb on a GC run. There is no way to force the GC to run.   Can you also send me your browser, os, player version. Also are you on a dual-core machine?   Ted   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com] On Behalf Of Rich Tretola Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Adobe, Help Memory Leaking !!   I have an application that uses many repeaters where the repeater's dataproviders are constantly updated which redraws the view. All look fine visually, however the flash player continues to use more and more memory. I created a demo version of this at http://www.everythingflex.com/flex2/MemoryTest/ I have buttons which up the amount of repeater items and then lower them and also attemp to delete the arraycollection, delete the dataprovider, etc but the memory never is recaptured. The source is also provided. Does anyone know how to get the garbage collection to run when the repeaters content changes?? Rich -- Rich Tretola <mx:EverythingFlex/> http://www.EverythingFlex.com -- Rich Tretola <mx:EverythingFlex/> http://www.EverythingFlex.com __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___