Re: Garbage collection best practices

[Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@...>]

Btw, to disable that and still run/debug from Visual Studio, one can add 
this environment variable the project:

_NO_DEBUG_HEAP=1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366705(v=vs.85).aspx

On 7/27/2011 10:59 AM, Patrick Rapin wrote:
> > I did some load tests on a lua program (a *C* program that uses different
> > Lua VMs, each on its own thread) and I've seen memory increasing to around
> > 1Gb (possibly my Window's memory limit or something), and then falling
> > quickly to 64Mb or so.
>
> Just to be sure: you are not running your program using Visual Studio
> in "Debug" mode, right?
> Because in this case, the memory consumption can grow up *much* higher
> than in Release mode.
> In Debug mode, to help debug memory related errors, "free" and similar
> functions do not return blocks to the system.
> So the application memory footprint can only grow over time. Or so I
> have observed.