random-gif consumes so much memory
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I just ran memory gif example and it seems to consume lots of memory on my machine. Do you know why? I haven't read the details of meiosis yet but I'm wondering if it's related to the meiosis pattern or just a bad implementation on this particular example.
@sassanh interesting. Would you mind trying it without Meiosis Tracer and see if that makes a significant difference?
I just cloned the repo and disabled the Tracer, it's still consuming a lot of ram, by pressing "Random gif" button around 20 times it reached to 1GB.
@sassanh thank you for spotting this. After inspecting the memory usage, I saw that the bulk of the memory is used by strings generated by bss. To be sure, I commented out all usage of bss and the memory usage remained stable (approx. 15MB) even after clicking on Random Gif over 100 times.
@porsager perhaps I am misusing bss? Here is an example. Do you have any suggestions for reducing memory usage?
Thanks!
Thanks for quick response. I'm glad you found the issue fast.
@foxdonut That's very interesting, and no, no wrongful usage.. To be honest I haven't at all dived into memory yet (only cpu), so it's very likely. It's good to have a reproducible case to go from, I've created porsager/bss#28 to track it :)