Memory Leaks about pawn-memory

[Sancky]

I think it has something to do with the plugin, I was using some vectors on my server, and is not like i didn't cleared them properly, I'm sure I did, but memory was not removed when a vector was cleared, or sometimes was removed but not instantly, just after some minutes, if i can reproduce it i will send the script here.

[BigETI]

Hi, I do. Can you please elaborate, what exactly causes memory leaks?

[Sancky]

so, if I'm doing this, its increasing the memory, but is not clearing it, it remains same like that MAP wasn't even cleared.

[Sancky]

As I see, its like that MAP remains the same size (1000) even after clearing the values, same applies for vectors.

[BigETI]

That does not seem like, to be an issue of that plugin itself, but rather a library, or usage issue.

[BigETI]

Can you please provide a minimal reproducible code, and the methodology used for measurements?

[Sancky]

public OnGameModeInit() {
    SetTimer("testmap", 10000, false);
    return 1;
}

forward testmap();
public testmap() {
    new Map:map;

    for(new i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
        MAP_insert_val_val(map, i, i);
    }

    MAP_clear(map);

    print("called");
}

I just tried this script, and its increasing a little bit the memory, but it isn't clearing it as it should.

before that function is called

after that function is called

[Sancky]

I didn't use any special method to see memory leaks, just looking at memory

[BigETI]

Did you ever encounter Run time error 3: "Stack/heap collision (insufficient stack size)" while executing that example? (Try crashdetect to catch the real issue)
This problem is not a pawn-memory issue, but it is an issue with pawn-map, where too many recursive calls are made, during the map cleanup process, which causes the callback to terminate prematurely.
Therefore it is indeed leaking memory in that example.

I have no idea what the issue with pawn-vector is. Please open a ticket at the respective repository, and provide at least a working example, in order to re-produce the associated issue.

Thank you for reporting this issue!