Re: Memory Problems

[Dave Cragg]

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
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