JSUI memory leak? Update: nope, maybe mcwrapper

    Chris Rolfe
    Jul 23 2019 | 7:45 pm
    I made a test patcher with the JSUI 360 DIAL JSUI file and noticed the memory usage growing steadily. What I'm seeing could be normal JVM memory usage and garbage collection but it seems excessive and the JSUI objects are associated with a crashing patcher.
    N.B. the stack trace below is from a more complex patcher with 8 JSUI objects. Later in this stack trace, the mc wrapper object tries to free a corrupt object (possibly a bad list from JSUI? vexpr?).
    On my machine, Activity Monitor shows a 1MB leak approximately every 10 s.
    Running on a MBP 2015, OS 10.11.6, Max 8.0.6 (64-bit).
    Crashed Thread: 0 CrBrowserMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
    Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
    Thread 0 Crashed:: CrBrowserMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db93696 freeobject + 32 1 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db9379e freeobject + 296 2 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc63c23 object_free + 27 3 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc5f207 hashtab_storeflags + 204 4 mc.wrapper~ 0x000000012c5ae635 mcwrapper_record + 99 5 mc.wrapper~ 0x000000012c5aff3a mcwrapper_client_message_fortarget + 377 6 mc.wrapper~ 0x000000012c5ae015 mcwrapper_int + 115 7 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dbd89c1 proxy_int + 144 8 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b5b6 outlet_int + 1278 9 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dbe5823 trigger_iterate + 195 10 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dbe5638 trigger_list + 108 11 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 12 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 13 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 14 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 15 vexpr 0x00000001290179b7 vexpr_scalarbang + 586 16 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b93d outlet_float + 701 17 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b37d outlet_int + 709 18 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73ff1 typedmess_fun + 483 19 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db74a4b aeval + 1038 20 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db44f03 atombuf_eval + 135 21 message 0x0000000121701853 jmessage_atombuf_eval + 631 22 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0af69 outlet_bang + 1138 23 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dbe5855 trigger_iterate + 245 24 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dbe5638 trigger_list + 108 25 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 26 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 27 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 28 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 29 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 30 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 31 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 32 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 33 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 34 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 35 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 36 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 37 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 38 vexpr 0x00000001290179b7 vexpr_scalarbang + 586 39 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 40 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010db73f2a typedmess_fun + 284 41 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0be80 outlet_list + 587 42 vexpr 0x00000001290179b7 vexpr_scalarbang + 586 43 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b93d outlet_float + 701 44 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b93d outlet_float + 701 45 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dbda319 route_float + 236 46 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b93d outlet_float + 701 47 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b93d outlet_float + 701 48 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010dc0b93d outlet_float + 701 49 jsui 0x0000000121748e9c jsthis_dooutlet + 258 50 ??? 0x000000012d997266 0 + 5059998310
    • Jul 25 2019 | 12:55 pm
      Chris Rolfe
      A slight update… I changed the post title.
      I was able to isolate the crash from JSUI, so it looks like this is a problem with the mcwrapper.
      The stack trace shows a memory error (EXC_BAD_ACCESS) after a mcwrapper call to object_free(). The patcher uses vexpr and iterates a list to setvalue to control mc.line~. I changed to use applyvalues (rather than setvalue) with mcwrapper. So far, no further crashes.
      Crashed Thread: 46 Built-in Output
      Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
      Thread 46 Crashed:: Built-in Output 0 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c09a696 freeobject + 32 1 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c09a79e freeobject + 296 2 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c16ac23 object_free + 27 3 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c166207 hashtab_storeflags + 204 4 mc.wrapper~ 0x000000011fc9e635 mcwrapper_record + 99 5 mc.wrapper~ 0x000000011fc9ff3a mcwrapper_client_message_fortarget + 377 6 mc.wrapper~ 0x000000011fc9e015 mcwrapper_int + 115 7 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c0df9c1 proxy_int + 144 8 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c1125b6 outlet_int + 1278 9 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c0ec823 trigger_iterate + 195 10 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c0ec638 trigger_list + 108 11 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c112e80 outlet_list + 587 12 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c112e80 outlet_list + 587 13 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c07af2a typedmess_fun + 284 14 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c112e80 outlet_list + 587 15 vexpr 0x000000011fc629b7 vexpr_scalarbang + 586 16 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c11293d outlet_float + 701 17 line 0x000000011fc6d5e3 line_tick + 151 18 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c04f82b clock_execute + 56 19 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c08ea33 scheduler_run_flags + 346 20 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b569262 plugrunner_serviceclocks + 44 21 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b569e61 plugrunner_servicescheduler + 362 22 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b569cc6 plugrunner_process + 205 23 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b583d2e patchernode_process + 292 24 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b581073 mixerengine_process_fun + 73 25 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c106ff2 linklist_funall_imp + 125 26 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b58100c mixerengine_process + 86 27 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b580e3b mixerengine_processiovector + 840 28 com.cycling74.MaxAudioAPI 0x000000011b553698 ad_process + 233 29 ad_coreaudio 0x000000011b64bdd9 adcoreaudio_callback + 317 30 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c684072 juce::CoreAudioClasses::AudioIODeviceCombiner::run() + 1394 31 com.cycling74.Max 0x000000010c74996f threadEntryProc + 591 32 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8afc199d _pthread_body + 131 33 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8afc191a _pthread_start + 168 34 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8afbf351 thread_start + 13