Can you post the complete source?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Nicolas <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that have found my memory leak (hopefully no more, fingers
> crossed).
>
> Actually, there was indeed something wrong around the delete keyword.
>
> delete works fine actually. However, I was doing this:
>
> 1) declaring a global array: matches=new Array();
>
> 2) in function 1, I was doing:
> mc=...
> matches[mc]=new match(....);
> do a few things
> call end_match(matches[mc]);
>
> 3) in end_match(g) function, I had:
> delete(g)
>
> And that's this delete(g) that was doing nothing.
>
> I still don't know enough about this to understand fully. Maybe
> someone can explain that to me. I see no good reason why g (pointing
> to my object in the array) should not be deleted. I guess it has to do
> with the scope of g (the GC only deletes the "pointer" not what it
> points to). But I am not sure of that. There might be more obscure
> reasons.
>
> In any case, that was a tricky one.
>
> I hope it will help someone.
>
> Thanks all for your time, and maybe you can tell me why it behaves
> like this.
>
> Nicolas.
>
>
>
> On 24 jan, 21:10, Johnathan Leppert <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Instead of delete, have you tried setting the reference to the class to
> > null?
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nicolas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Test loading my app on the server side, I realized that I had a big
> > > memory leak.
> >
> > > Narrowing down the problem, I ended up load testing something really
> > > simple, with still a memory leak:
> >
> > >                            var i_max=50000;
> > >                            mc=0;
> > >                            for (var i=1;i<=i_max;i++)
> > >                            {
> > >                                matches[i]=new Test_Class("s",
> > > 1,mc,"local",0,0,1);
> >
> > >                                delete (matches[i]); // Never does
> > > anything... There does not seem to be any destructor in Mootools.
> > >                            }
> >
> > > With the empty class Test_Class defined like this:
> >
> > > Test_Class= new Class({
> >
> > >        //Constructor
> > >        initialize: function(param1, param2, param3, )
> > >        {
> >
> > >        }
> > > });
> >
> > > The 50,000 iterations lead to a leak of 40 Mb, that is 0.8kB per new
> > > object of the class created.
> > > I have Mootools 1.2.4 on the server, with a compile from the git from
> > > the 16th of december.
> >
> > > My questions are:
> >
> > > 1) Do you think that the memory leak is related to SpiderMonkey or
> > > Mootools?
> > > 2) Do you think upgrading to Mootools 1.3 help? I have tried but
> > > failed to do so. For some reasons, I don't manage to make it work.
> > > 3) Can you reproduce the problem on you server? It should not take
> > > very long to copy the few lines above.
> > > 4) Are there any know memory leak left in Ape?
> >
> > > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > > Nicolas.
> >
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