#440 High memory usage

[James Cohen]

I'm seeing really high memory usage and out of memory
exceptions being thrown.

JBidWatcher-0.9.5.jar
P4 2.8G
512MB RAM
j2re1.4.2_05

The errors were thrown with a multisnipe group of four
or 5 items and around 6 other auctions listed in the
current tab (but with no snipes assigned).

The application had been running for 8 or 9 hours.

If there's any further debug I can give you please let me
know.

[Morgan Schweers]

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Greetings,
At a guess, I'm going to presume Windows, as it sets a 64MB
cap on Java processes.

One thing to do, to see JBidwatcher's memory usage, is to add

debug.memory=true

to the JBidWatch.cfg file in:
Documents and Settings/{Username}/.jbidwatcher
or
~/.jbidwatcher
or
/Users/{username}/.jbidwatcher
for Windows, Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris, and MacOSX respectively.

Add that line while JBidwatcher is not running, then restart
JBidwatcher, and you'll find a little box that says how much
memory has been allocated to JBidwatcher, and how much it's
using so far. (It will also allow you to forcibly 'garbage
collect' JBidwatcher.)

I'm leaving this open for now as a 'high memory' bug,
although it's unlikely to ever get actually resolved. I'll
make any updates about memory on this bug.

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!