[REBOL] R: Please, help me finding the memory hole
From: gchillemi::aliceposta::it at: 4-Dec-2007 10:57
> > Hello, I have a little script which is able to halt Rebol
> on an "Append"
> > with an "Out of Memory Error".
>
> Are you appending to a string? How long is the string? (Seems
> 8MB from the stats but I'd like you to confirm.) How much
> free memory do you actually have? Can you reproduce it with a
> simple script?
Gabriele, thanks, it seems I have found the bug ant it is script related.
The program searches for news on a internet site. I was appending two nested
temporary blocks without clearing them after the loops.
First loop size was: "block1size = block1size + pagefounds" instead of
block1size = pagesfounds
Second loop size was: "block2size = block2size + block1size" instead of
block2size = block1size
Without clearing block1 and block2 after their use the memomy numbers become
huge (about 180.000 items in block2)
Now I am testing the script reading 2000++ pages with 15 news in each page
(about 30.000 items) but I suppose there shoud be no problems.
Then will come another script which will read the contend of those news. I
suppose I'll have again a memory problem but then it will be real and I will
not be able to solve it and I will have to change the script flushing data
found on a temporary disk file.
Giuseppe Chillemi
