Memory 5.03.12 ?

[Seer]

Another thing, has anything changed in the way nUI allocates mem ?

When I was keeping track of mem usage nUI was rather stable at the 20mb to 25mb when soloing.

Today, after server restarts I noticed that framerates seemed to have improved, tho the game "holds" (usually when changing zones or nearing a "busy" spot, even most were deserted.

Looking at the mem usage I see nUI use mem rapidly, going from 16mb to 30mb upwards, dropping back to 16mb.

Don't mind the usage, it just seems a bit strange, AFAIK, nUI never gained mem so fast when soloing?

Funnily enough when the garbage collector kicks in it doesn't seem to cause the pauze.. (It really feels like the game just stops for a second, not like normal fps drops) Tho I guess that is unrelated to nUI, maybe SpellFlash as on the ptr it caused several errors or maybe related to the server reboot, everything was fine last night, tho I didn't watch mem usage.

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disabled spellflash, seems to have solved the "pause"... nUI still keeps climbing and dropping fast :-s Seems to tick .20mb every second.

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Spoke to soon.. 2 "pauses", FPS doesn't drop, the game just seem to stop for a split second, nothing unusual happening, just riding a battlestrider through desolace.. Hm.. Had something similar a few weeks ago but then I was flying around in northrend and FPS did go down drastically..

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Now in Feralas, and frame rates do go down when the game "pauses".. Weird stuff, tho the landscape is "a bit" different, more ground objects, the framerate when stable is lower then in desolace..

Anyway, mostly curious about the mem usage, the "pauses" I'll figure out sooner or later... And last time it was also after the server restarts and that seemed to solve itself..

[spiel2001]

I can't think of a reason why memory usage would have gone up. I'll have to check and see if something I did in the action bars is using dynamic memory rather than static. Thanks for the heads up.

[Animorph]

Just a quick to post to say the OP's issue is not isolated, I am having the same issues. I can't narrow down on any type of particular situation though, because it appears to be in most situations (solo'ing, dungeons, cities).

[Heyrebaggins]

I am also having issues with memory usage. I tried disabling all other addons but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I could be wrong but my issues seem to begin after I have joined a party or raid and then go back to soloing.

[spiel2001]

Is it just that it is using more memory, or that something's breaking?

How much memory a mod uses is irrelevant.

[Animorph]

It's kind of strange, I know nUI uses dynamic memory so I expect to see a swing, but my mem swings are going from 13Mb to 31Mb, I don't know why it would more than double itself...

[spiel2001]

13 to 31 meg is no big deal... 31 meg is no big deal.

The reason it swings so wide is because of how the incremental garbage collector works. It's based on system load, memory use, how much "action" is occurring in the game and several other factors.

The amount of memory nUI uses will increase significantly in a raid as there's far more for it to track. In fact, the increase is less than one might expect if you do a little thought experiment on it... when you are solo questing, nUI typically uses around 11 to 18 meg. In a 40 man raid, it tends to use 38 to 58 meg... however, in a 40 man raid, there are 40 times as many things (or more including raid targets) for it to keep track of... good thing it doesn't use 40 times as much memory, huh?

That's actually one of the efficiencies in nUI is that it spends the "money" up front on a common engine so it can grow how many things it is tracking without blowing up.

[Animorph]

Ok, as long as it's expected, all cool.