Thus spake "Brent Easton":
> Hi Guys,
>
> Ok, This is the old scaled image cache memory leak issue. (i.e. what used to
> happen
> if you keep starting/closing games without quitting vassal).
>
> Yes, you are running out of Java Heap Space.
>
> The Define Zone shape loads a scaled map image into the cache. Each time
> you click, a new one gets added. The 'Edit Grid' button on the Hex Grid
> component has the same problem.
>
> You can see this happening by using the Processes window of the the Windows T
> ask Manager
> and show the Mem Usage or VM size columns. Once the VM size hits your -Xmx ma
> x heap
> space limit, boom, everything dies.
>
> Alternate Workaround is to start a new game, or load a saved game -
> This clears the image cache.
>
> I will look at what we need to do to fix properly.
So... the Java VM isn't properly garbage-collecting cached images? Or
something in VASSAL is hanging on to a reference to some cached images
which it shouldn't be?
--
J.
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