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sladeiw
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Posted: 13th Apr 2019 11:47
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I'm still supporting an old application created with DBPro which is used every day for 8+ hours. The problem is the memory footprint increases over the day as (I assume) memory leaks within DBPro accumulate. This means occasional restarts to keep it stable. I have tried recompiling with 9EX but while it compiles fine there are too many issues to go back and fix. (100k+ lines of code) So... Is there a list or information on any particular commands or structures that contribute to memory leaks so I could possibly work around them. This is a desktop utility app, not a game, so no 3D commands are used. Thanks
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tiresius
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Posted: 14th Apr 2019 05:17
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Do you use user defined types that get deleted while containing strings? Some kind of "free string" command is only thing I remember language-based that was needed as a workaround for memory problems.
Maybe undim also had trouble, I'm not sure.
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Some memory leaks issues were find - also all of them were fixed in DBProEx, as I think.
You can just search here on forums to find all list of them. I can remember memory leak when create/delete animation but there were more of them, for sure.
What troubles did you get when recompile with DBProEx ?

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sladeiw
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Posted: 14th Apr 2019 22:53
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"What troubles did you get when recompile with DBProEx ?"

It just didn't work reliably & crashed regularly. It would be a massive job to start debugging with 9EX. I can't stress how much of a huge undertaking it would be since the app works on large databases that could be corrupted in subtle ways. 9EX is great work and I would use it if I was starting on something new. Living with the existing known faults is preferable

"Do you use user defined types that get deleted while containing strings? Some kind of "free string" command is only thing I remember language-based that was needed as a workaround for memory problems.
Maybe undim also had trouble, I'm not sure."

Thanks, I do undim & redimm one UDT but only in a module in the app that very rarely gets used so fairly sure that's not contributing to the leak.
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Posted: 15th Apr 2019 19:53
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Returning strings from functions without assigning the return to anything will leak



Copying a udt over another udt in whole that contains strings will leak

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tiresius
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Posted: 15th Apr 2019 20:59
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It's hard to trace these.

You can get a windows dump file and go through it with a hex editor or other viewer and look for tons and tons of extra data that hopefully you will recognize.
Like the same or similar strings 100000x over in memory. If it's integer data stuck in an array that will be harder to look at.

You could also trap it out to text file on disk in the code and match up creates/deletes of your data. That would take a very long time to code and also review.
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sladeiw
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Posted: 15th Apr 2019 23:11
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@ortu - Thanks I found numerous times I blackholed a returned numeric from functions, but no strings

@tiresius - Yes that sounds extremely tedious!
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I had the same problem and is the reason I stopped using DBpro sadly. It was the runtime code it created as well as the IDE all had memory leaks that just became to much for my potato of a computer I use to have. Every version I have tried had them. Sorry I wish I could add more like a solution but I never found one. I will likely compile DBPro myself soon hopefully and fix all the leaks but I have a lot on my plate at the moment and am not really sure. I just need to write some GUI code in DBPro for a program I am working on in C++. Going to use DBPro as the front end and make a library for my project to run with it.
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