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DarkBASIC Discussion / DarkBasic eats up my memory!

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Chessplayer
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Posted: 30th Mar 2003 23:27
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When I run a lot of DB projects, my RAM really gets eaten away at. Is there any way to restore my system resources?
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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 30th Mar 2003 23:55
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nope, you have to restart the computer.
It's very important that programmers disable the escape key and create an exit routine to delete all media in their games or other wise you have these memory leaks.
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Angeleyes
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Chessplaer try this routine:

FOR t = 1 to 65535
If object exist(t) then delete object t
If image exist(t) then delete image t
If light exist(t) then delete light t
If matrix exist(t) then delete matrix t
NEXT t
FOR t = 1 to 1024
If sound exist(t) then delete sound t
NEXT t
FOR t = 1 to 31
If bitmap exist(t) then delete bitmap t
NEXT t
FOR t = 2 to 32
If music exist(t) then delete music t
NEXT t
FLUSH VIDEO MEMORY

Ta ta for now
Mary

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John H
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Posted: 31st Mar 2003 01:36
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DB Uses all available memory when it runs. So, my suggestion, is to first run ur other proggys, then run DB.

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bitJericho
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um...db automatically deletes everything...u may be running into bugs with db itself, in which case i doubt deleting everything manually would help any... make sure ur copy of db is up to date, ive had no probs with memory leaks with ver 1.13

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indi
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Posted: 31st Mar 2003 10:12
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hubdule is working on a memory flusher and you are privvy to testing it if u are part of DBDN.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

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Freddix
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Jerico2day I'm sorry but apparently db don't delete all things automatically !

Just try a small program that make memblocks and load images
run it some times and you'll get your memory down !

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Thanks for that AngelEyes. Im new and scanning the forums for some in-sights. That was one.

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Red Giant 2183
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actually , it doesn't use all available memory,
and you should remember for each array you make,load, and images you load to restore the resources as the code below has some serious resource leaks :
dim somearray(200000)
dim anotherarray(230000)
load image "someimage",1
text 3,3,"test"
end

but can be easily modified to release the resources before ending the program by adding these simple lines :
undim somearray(200000)
umdim anotherarray(230000)
delete image 1

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bitJericho
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hummm, ive never had probs with it....
I know one should delete what he creates..but it was my impression that db did this automatically...so I never worried about it..figured it would be faster anyways letting db take care of it rather than doing it manually...

*runs off to test it for himself*

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