Re: R: Running out of VM
Re: R: Running out of VM
- Subject: Re: R: Running out of VM
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:37:58 -0500
On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
Perhaps. The only crashes I'm hearing about are from vague
descriptions on MacUpdate and through Smart Crash Reports. I'm
struggling to actually pin down a reliable user who can reproduce
these. However, if I artificially persuade my app to take up an
extra couple of gig of memory, things get very, very slow, but I do
get crashes looking fairly similar to these users' crashes. So,
I'm *guessing* that perhaps the users seeing crashes are running
with, say, 256MB of RAM and not much free disk space.
I had something similar to this in an app I wrote a while back. Don't
know enough about your situation to know if it might be comparable,
but what was happening in mine is that I had code working in a
separate thread with its own autorelease pool. Inside the thread, I
had a loop which looped through the frames of a movie and processed
them in a variety of ways, which ate up memory. Because I had
declared my own autorelease pool, my objects, when I was done with
them, were not being released and the memory footprint of the app
kept growing until it hit the maximum memory for my application.
I resolved the problem by declaring an additional autorelease pool
inside my loop, which caused that the memory used while processing a
single frame would get released when I was done working with that
thread.
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