GC: Memory keeps growing

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 15 04:48:21 PDT 2015


On 15/04/2015 11:44 p.m., Chris wrote:
> My garbage collected app starts with ~10 MB in memory, however with
> every execution of code it grows by at least 0.2 MB (or more depending
> on the input). Although I can see memory being freed (say it goes up to
> 32 MB and drops to 14 MB), it keeps on growing slowly but surely.
>
> I use structs for the most part [1] and reuse arrays at critical points,
> clearing them with destroy() after use. Maybe this is the problem? I
> dunno. I'd be grateful for any hints.
>
> [1] The few classes I use are either singletons or instantiated only
> once and cached when the programs starts.

Sounds like you are doing a LOT of allocations. Try with -vgc during 
compilation to find out where you are allocating.


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