Dave Cragg wrote: > > At 12:14 pm -0800 20/2/03, Ray Horsley wrote: > >Thank you xbury and Pierre, > > > >I appreciate the suggestions, however, I've opened all 36 stacks I'm using > >for testing, set the Destroy Stack on Close and the Destroy Window on Close > >to true, and I also set the Always Buffer to false for all of them. Sorry, > >no change. I still find Metacard increasing in memory from about 17 megs to > >a little over 30 if I go to or refer to each of them. Any other ideas? > > > >Thanks, > > > > I remember having a similar problem a few versions ago. I found that > the stacks weren't cleared from memory until the current handler > stopped running. So in a repeat loop like yours, memory won't get > cleared until after the loop finishes. > > Things to try: > > Add a wait after you have handled a certain number of stacks. For > example, you could try adding the following line at the end of your > repeat loop to wait after every 5th stack: > > repeat with L=1 to number of lines of allStacks -- list of 30 stack paths > ##other stuff here > delete stack stackPath > if L mod 5 = 0 then wait 100 milliseconds ##add this > end repeat > > If that doesn't work, try using "send ... in <time>". Something like: > > repeat with L=1 to number of lines of allStacks -- list of 30 stack paths > put line L of allStacks into stackPath > send "doStuff stackpath" to me in 20 milliseconds > end repeat > > on doStuff stackpath > set the defaultStack to stackPath -- or go stack stack path > -- do some stuff like set scripts and save the stack > delete stack stackPath > end doStuff > > Cheers > Dave > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
In the same way described by Dave, tou could, perhaps, get good results in using a recursive command included in an "on idle" handler instead of using your statements inside a repeat loop and in storing allstacks an the lines to parse in allstacks in two global vars. -- Cordialement, Pierre Sahores Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis. Applications et bases de données WEB et VPN Qualifier et produire l'avantage compétitif _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard