no messages to max window
Hi all,
I have a patch which is meant to run as standalone for long times without rebooting.
I have the issue that the messages to the MAX window causes memory leakage over the long term.
My question is: is there a way to clear the max window with a command, or is it possible to stop the max window from reporting messages?
thanks,
Kessito
Are you sure this is not just symbol table build-up?
Most claims that Max is "leaking memory" are, in fact, simply the behavior that symbols, once created, live forever in the symbol hash table. This is not a ‘memory leak’.
Along the same lines: external objects, once loaded, live in memory forever (ie, until the Max session is ended).
In re: messages to the Max window, the obvious thing to try is to keep the window closed. Don’t know how much difference this will make, but worth trying.
Maybe this is a good spot to bring up discussion about the symbol hash table in general.
Honestly I’ve always been a little confused as to the way the thing worked, and why there was never an hourly wipe or something of it.
Just having a time+date display somewhere on your interface (especially if it has a display of seconds) could cause thousands of messages to be written to the hash table (I had a setup that would automatically name files saved out, for a while, and it would generate strings regularly. Now I’m smarter, and know better ways to do it, but I get the feeling I’m still generating a ton of unique strings).