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DarthGator · 05-06-2009

I absolutely love autobar and hate to play without it, however I've also been getting the massive memory use issue reported by some others (http://forums.wowace.com/showpost.ph...postcount=2446) (http://code.google.com/p/autobar/iss...rity%20Summary). In Dalaran, it causes constant lag spikes and large spikes during each garbage collection.

I spent a good chunk of time tracking this down last night, here's what I have:

* Memory is rapidly consumed until it is garbage collected. This effect is much more pronounced in Dalaran than anywhere else including other cities like Ironforge. Being outside of a city, the effect is much less pronounced. The observations I make below are from sitting in Dalaran. Also, the memory usage is attributed to Autobar whether I have libs embedded or standalone. I also cleared all addons beforehand so all installations were new.

1) Having only Autobar and a memory tracking mod (Broker_CPU/Broker2Fubar/Fubar), I found Autobar sitting at a minimum of 4-5MB. The memory usage attributed to Autobar will climb to 10-11 MB within one minute and then drop back down to 4-5 again after the GC (I'll call the increase and drop over time a cycle). Using Fubar_PerformanceFu/Fubar instead reports the same thing.

2) Adding QuestHelper (so it's only QH/Autobar/mem tracking mod) really increases the amount of memory gained and lost in the cycle. Basically all memory usage in the cycle is still attributed to Autobar whether running with embbeded or seperate libs. Instead of jumping from 4-5MB up to 10-11MB it jumps to 25-30MBs. This seems to match some of the other reports I've seen in this thread.

3) When running Quest Helper alone, I see no memory issues at all, not even the smaller 5-6MB increase and drop every minute as described in (1) above. Basically, I see no cycle at all.

If anyone has any ideas how to further track this down please let me know.

05-06-2009	#2462
DarthGator Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 27	Re: AutoBar by Toadkiller (official thread) I absolutely love autobar and hate to play without it, however I've also been getting the massive memory use issue reported by some others (http://forums.wowace.com/showpost.ph...postcount=2446) (http://code.google.com/p/autobar/iss...rity%20Summary). In Dalaran, it causes constant lag spikes and large spikes during each garbage collection. I spent a good chunk of time tracking this down last night, here's what I have: * Memory is rapidly consumed until it is garbage collected. This effect is much more pronounced in Dalaran than anywhere else including other cities like Ironforge. Being outside of a city, the effect is much less pronounced. The observations I make below are from sitting in Dalaran. Also, the memory usage is attributed to Autobar whether I have libs embedded or standalone. I also cleared all addons beforehand so all installations were new. 1) Having only Autobar and a memory tracking mod (Broker_CPU/Broker2Fubar/Fubar), I found Autobar sitting at a minimum of 4-5MB. The memory usage attributed to Autobar will climb to 10-11 MB within one minute and then drop back down to 4-5 again after the GC (I'll call the increase and drop over time a cycle). Using Fubar_PerformanceFu/Fubar instead reports the same thing. 2) Adding QuestHelper (so it's only QH/Autobar/mem tracking mod) really increases the amount of memory gained and lost in the cycle. Basically all memory usage in the cycle is still attributed to Autobar whether running with embbeded or seperate libs. Instead of jumping from 4-5MB up to 10-11MB it jumps to 25-30MBs. This seems to match some of the other reports I've seen in this thread. 3) When running Quest Helper alone, I see no memory issues at all, not even the smaller 5-6MB increase and drop every minute as described in (1) above. Basically, I see no cycle at all. If anyone has any ideas how to further track this down please let me know. Last edited by DarthGator; 05-06-2009 at 05:35 PM.