| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Topaz | My bot that I'm currently coding is experiencing memory leaks, or at least, that's what I think. :P It was 2,000k before, and it's done a nice leap to about 7,000k :-/ So, in short, I'd like for you guys to post what you know ( Possible places/reasons why it's leaking, or methods for me to find and kill them ) Note: I do use Option Explicit, and I don't set objects to Nothing after using them. | August 26, 2005, 1:39 AM |
| R.a.B.B.i.T | Check your arrays ;\ | August 26, 2005, 2:40 AM |
| R.a.B.B.i.T | Adding stuff repeatedly, bad methods of checking, not properly deleting data, etc... IE: If you have a string array of users, and one leaves, you remove that data from the array (data(50) = "" or whatever), but the space is still allocated, so each time you add a new user, you're allocating more space, even though you may not need to. | August 26, 2005, 3:56 AM |
| LoRd | Unless the overall memory usage is slowly increasing then it's probably not a memory leak, rather just poor coding. | August 26, 2005, 4:09 AM |
| Topaz | Examples of how this could happen? It might just be me :( | August 26, 2005, 4:11 AM |
| UserLoser. | [quote author=LoRd[nK] link=topic=12623.msg125507#msg125507 date=1125029393] Unless the memory is slowly increasing in memory usage then it's probably not a memory leak, rather just poor coding. [/quote] Or poor coding which leads to memory leaks | August 26, 2005, 4:11 AM |
| UserLoser. | [quote author=Topaz link=topic=12623.msg125508#msg125508 date=1125029488] Examples of how this could happen? It might just be me :( [/quote] Not closing handles, threads, deleting objects, freeing up arrays, etc. when you're done with them | August 26, 2005, 4:12 AM |
| R.a.B.B.i.T | It could possibly be 3rd party ActiveX controls you're using as well. | August 26, 2005, 6:23 AM |
| Topaz | What sort of things (attributing to poor coding) would suck up a lot of memory? | August 26, 2005, 3:27 PM |
| UserLoser. | [quote author=Topaz link=topic=12623.msg125562#msg125562 date=1125070028] What sort of things (attributing to poor coding) would suck up a lot of memory? [/quote] Not closing handles, threads, deleting objects, freeing up arrays, etc. when you're done with them | August 26, 2005, 8:38 PM |
| Grok | [quote author=Topaz link=topic=12623.msg125487#msg125487 date=1125020366] and I don't set objects to Nothing after using them. [/quote] Why not? Depending on your scoping and object creation, that could be your problem. What type of objects? | August 31, 2005, 4:55 AM |