#62 Memory "Leak"

[Anonymous]

I have a bot that uses a lot of memory every battle. Every round, actually. If I run more than one battle in the same JVM, I get OutOfMemoryExceptions. BUT, if I set my big data structures to null at the end of the battle, no problems for many battles in a row.

You can download the bot "WeeksOnEnd" from the robocode repository.

You can see more discussion about this on the robowiki, under

http://robowiki.net/cgi-bin/robowiki?RoboRumble/ReportedProblems
http://robowiki.net/cgi-bin/robowiki?WeeksOnEnd
http://robowiki.net/cgi-bin/robowiki?RoboRumble/ParticipantsChat

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[Flemming N. Larsen]

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See my comment at:
http://robowiki.net/cgi-bin/robowiki?WeeksOnEnd

[Flemming N. Larsen]

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I have made a fix where all the static fields on a robot that are not final or primitive are set to null so that the garbage collector is called on these fields. I have made an alpha version that can be downloaded here:

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/files/robocode-setup-1.2.5-Alpha.jar

I should like you to tryout this version to see if the problem disappears?

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Fix is available with Robocode 1.2.5 Beta