Sean, The stack was not running anything. It was simply opened. I don’t believe it would leak like that. Anyway, I’m monitoring to see if it happens again.
A > On 26 Mar 2021, at 13:01, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Wow, Andre, that's impressive. That amounts to about 34MB per minute over > 48hrs. I've had a pretty massive stack (226MB file at the moment) on my Mac > sitting here over the last week. Looking in the activity monitor, LC has > 987MB associated with it. and watching it over a period of time it remains > stable and even went down a tiny bit. > > I wonder if this is more an issue with Rosetta2 in this instance. Maybe > something in LC leaks because of the Rosetta transformation of the binary. > Perhaps, as a test, open the same stack on a non-AppleSilicon Mac and watch > them both for how much memory they expend over a period of time. > > All the best with that. > > Sean > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 10:03, Andre Garzia via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> I have no idea what happened. I’m running LC 9.6.2-rc-3 on macOS Big Sur >> on M1 ISA (so it is running under Rosetta 2). I kept the IDE opened for a >> couple days, I was working on a gaziliion stacks at the same time and was >> not yet ready to close them. >> >> The stacks were not doing anything, they were not running “send in time” >> commands or doing any kind of processing, they were just opened. Then macOS >> showed me a dialog I have never ever seen on macOS 10.x, a memory >> exhaustion dialog. Looking closer at it, LiveCode was using 100 GB of >> memory, as in Gigabyte, as can be seen on this screenshot: >> >> http://andregarzia.com/img/shots/lc-memory-leak.png < >> http://andregarzia.com/img/shots/lc-memory-leak.png> >> >> I remember things like the “default button” causing leaks due to the >> animation and so on, but all I had was a bunch of custom stacks open and >> the script editor focused. Thats it. It was open since yesterday. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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