ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:36 am**

I did a memory dump when the t-enginge was using 1.2 GB of ram.
Opened it in a hex editor and discovered it is full of strings like:

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\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\archelemsplit\overload\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\werebeast\overload\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\werebeast\overload\data\talents\uber\mag.lua

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\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\werebeast\overload\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\werebeast\overload\loaded-addons\archelemsplit\overload\data\gfx\talents\rune__speed.png

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\loaded-addons\archelemsplit\overload\loaded-addons\archelemsplit\overload\loaded-addons\alchemist+\overload\loaded-addons\werebeast\overload\data\gfx\particles\notice_enemy.lua

In between these strings is 3 to 5 empty spaces, then 4 random characters, then 3 more empty spaces.

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     ZNÝ|

I suspect the above is a number of some sort. It appears to count downwards in some sort of sequence.

Hopefully this helps get it sorted out.

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:43 am**

How much as a % is those strings of the 1.2gb?

The bytes inbetween are almost always an indicator of the length of the string following it.

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:44 pm**

I'd be interested in seeing a similar dump right after garbage collection to see how much of that data is really redundant or if the garbage collector is not working properly with t-engine.

I think the command to do a full garbage collection cycle is collectgarbage("collect").

Posted: **Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:15 am**

Canderel wrote:How much as a % is those strings of the 1.2gb?

About 85%

Posted: **Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:22 pm**

Hachem_Muche wrote:I'd be interested in seeing a similar dump right after garbage collection to see how much of that data is really redundant or if the garbage collector is not working properly with t-engine.

Assuming HousePet copied and pasted those lines, nothing would happen. All the Lua side directories use forward slashes.

This looks to be happening in the C portion of the engine. Again, assuming the lines are pasted from the dump.

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