Garbage-collector
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| Hi. I need some help with the B3D garbage collection mechanism. First, I am not sure there is one, which can be invoked explicitly. If there is one, please let me know. I have created this software for a company, and it runs on multimedia kiosks, where the computer stays on 24/7. \So far, the program works great, except for the fact that, sometimes, every ten hours or so, it freezes for a couple of minutes and then continues normaly, as if nothing had happened. The time it stays frozen varies from a couple of minutes to up to 10 minutes. I wonder if this could be the garbage collector doing its work. Maybe not. But, if there is a way to activate it at anytime, I would like to know. Thanks a lot, /R |
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| It's not the computers hard drive doing 'stuff' is it? If my hard drive shuts off automatically, it can cause quite a bump when it comes back on. Nothing like ten minutes though. Check all the power management stuff is off. I've left prgrams running for days at a time before, and have never noticed this - I wasn't constantly monitoring them however :/ |
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| Blitz doesn't really do much garbage collection AFAIK. It is more likely an issue with Windows or the computer. You could simulate a clean-up by freeing all objects and switching graphics mode. But, I doubt it will make a difference. |
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| If you can - maybe you can run a system monitoring utility like System Doctor from Norton. Activate sensors to monitor CPU, Physical Memory and Virtual memory. If you have a look at the graphs when that 'stall' happens - you should be able to determine if it is indeed garbage collection (i.e. if Phys Memory rises after the event) yinch'03 |
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| Do you know for a fact Windows isn't doing something stupid with Task Scheduler? |
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