Returned: abnormally large memory footprint [v10.1.0.14]

[SoulCookie]

Regrettably I have to report that the memory leak/issue/thing (ref #12) has happened again, after a night and a day of being nice and chill.

The only pic I snapped of its ballooning size yesterday was, as I mentioned, ~300MB. Tonight I grabbed this pic of it over 900MB.

I'm gonna disable the Collector addon for my play session tonight; I'll try re-enabling it later tonight or tomorrow and see if things are better. If there are particular things you'd like me to test, I remain happy to do.

[madcowfred]

Sigh, wtf 😢 If you could try v10.1.0.15 at some point and let me know - if that fails, could you try editing Addons\WoWthing_Collector\WoWthing_Collector.toc and commenting out all of the modules:

Core.lua

# Modules/Achievements.lua
# Modules/Bags.lua
# Modules/CharacterMisc.lua
# Modules/Currencies.lua
# Modules/Guild.lua
# Modules/Location.lua
# Modules/Lockouts.lua
# Modules/MythicPlus.lua
# Modules/ProfessionEquipment.lua
# Modules/Quests.lua
# Modules/Reputations.lua
# Modules/Spells.lua
# Modules/TimePlayed.lua
# Modules/Transmog.lua
# Modules/Vault.lua
# Modules/WorldQuests.lua
# Modules/XP.lua

If that works, uncomment them and reload one by one. It sucks but I have no real idea what could possibly be causing the issue.

[SoulCookie]

Partial testing done tonight; will resume tomorrow.

Results so far are... maddening.

1. 10.1.0.15, all modules: memory spike/ freeze ❌
2. 10.1.0.15 (continues), no modules: seems fine ✅
3. adding in modules one at a time, cumulatively: ok ✅ Achievements thru MythicPlus
4. adding ProfessionEquipment to the cumulation: big spike ❌
5. enabling all modules EXCEPT ProfessionEquipment: ok ✅
6. enabling ONLY ProfessionEquipment: seems fine, annoyingly ✅
7. retrying the partial, formerly-spiking combo from step 4: damn thing works fine 😠✅
8. re-enabling ALL modules (repeating step 1): again, the infernal thing behaves normally 😡✅

So I don't know quite what to try tomorrow. I saw the biggest spike from adding Modules/ProfessionEquipment.lua into the mix, but it didn't appear to be a repeat offender, so I don't know if it was coincidence or not.

On the theory that whatever is contributing to the spikiness is getting somehow cached and so smoothed over, I'm going to do some testing with different characters and see if I can identify any repeatable steps.

[madcowfred]

Hrm. I could see it infinitely retrying profession things if it failed to get item info the first time, I'll push a fix for that stupidity and see if it helps

[madcowfred]

If you can give v10.1.0.16 a try at some point that'd be cool, in theory that makes profession stuff less likely to consume your entire computer.

[SoulCookie]

10.1.0.16 installed. 👍

I'll run through the investigative steps with it if the memory spike rears its head again, and will report back. 🔍🤓

[SoulCookie]

Checking in: After several hours of running .16, I've had no repeat incidents.

Fingers crossed that the streak holds. 😅

[SoulCookie]

Updated to x.17. Still running without encountering problems. 👍

[SoulCookie]

Well, at the risk of angering the spirits of Comedy and Irony, I think the problem is resolved and this ticket can be closed. (I'm willing to keep checking in over the coming days if you'd rather keep it open a bit longer.)

Edited to add: I've only just now downloaded x.18, so maybe keep the issue open a little longer...?

[madcowfred]

Should be good now, thanks for narrowing it down to profession equipment - I looked at that a few times and went "yeah that looks right" when it absolutely was not :(