[.net] [VB.NET] DirectX Control and memory leaks
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Hi,
I started working on a small DirectX UserControl with Vb.NET. So I made a simple skeleton of the control, then I tested it with a simple render loop cleaning the UserControl area to Blue. That went fine, however I've noticed that the process keeps allocating more and more memory(aproximately 30 kB/s).
Have anybody any idea what can cause these memory leaks?
Thanks in advance
P.S.:
I've just tried the CreateDevice tutorial from October SDK and it's leaking the memory too. Can the bug be in my workstation?
Hi
I had a memory leak problem before, put your debug runtime on max validation and full verbosity. Some kind soul then told me to search for DebugView to see the debug output, very neat tool.
Here is my cited thread.
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I had a memory leak problem before, put your debug runtime on max validation and full verbosity. Some kind soul then told me to search for DebugView to see the debug output, very neat tool.
Here is my cited thread.
Argh further maths exam (AS D1 module) at 1...wish me luck! I _can_ get 100% but it takes 2hrs rather than 1hr30 :( I'm slow and stupid :(
Bonne chance
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I've alredy checked the debug output(everything set to maximum) with no success. It says that there's nothing wrong.
I'm totally lost, I've tweaked everything and the leaks were always there. Please, If anyone could give me any hint/advice, I would appreciate it a lot. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for your reply. I've alredy checked the debug output(everything set to maximum) with no success. It says that there's nothing wrong.
I'm totally lost, I've tweaked everything and the leaks were always there. Please, If anyone could give me any hint/advice, I would appreciate it a lot. Thanks a lot.
How are you doing your render loop? A code sample would be useful. Just telling us that "memory keeps getting allocated" isn't particularily helpful since we have no idea what your code is doing.
Agreeing with Washu (duh! ;)) - it might not even mean you have a memory leak when you're dealing with garbage collectors - it probably does mean you should reconsider the alocations you're doing, since you probably will end up with the garbage collector kicking in at innoportune times and causing random slowdowns.
Basically, remember that the Vb.net garbage collector works different from the vb6 one.
Basically, remember that the Vb.net garbage collector works different from the vb6 one.
If debug output shows nothing (does not spew out lots of stack traces for unfreed memory), probably saying 'Mem fini!' at the end, then it's probably not DirectX's fault.
Like others said, it's probably the normal operation of the garbage collector.
I believe the CreateDevice tutorial uses Application.DoEvents...not a good thing:
Check out Rick's and Tom's blogs. (and this is Tom's post on the render loop)
Hope that helps
Like others said, it's probably the normal operation of the garbage collector.
I believe the CreateDevice tutorial uses Application.DoEvents...not a good thing:
Quote:Rick's blog
The first loop I used was the old standby loop:
while (Created){ Frame(); Application.DoEvents();}
Sadly, this loop is mortifyingly bad about allocations. To give you an example, if you do nothing else in a frame, this kind of loop can generate over 50MB of garbage in 100000 frames. Under CLR profiler, you’ll see a shark tooth pattern of allocation and collection emerge in the timeline. Lots of collections == bad long-term performance.
Check out Rick's and Tom's blogs. (and this is Tom's post on the render loop)
Hope that helps
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Thanks a lot guys. The link to those blogs were quite helpful, the memory allocation decresed dramatically, however there's still some ignoreable overhead.
Anyways, I'm having some problems with those game loops. I've tried to implement this game loop, however it's seems that my form is not recieving any message. Here's my implementation:
Do you see any mistakes in my code?
[Edited by - MePHyst0 on January 25, 2006 3:07:58 PM]
Anyways, I'm having some problems with those game loops. I've tried to implement this game loop, however it's seems that my form is not recieving any message. Here's my implementation:
Private Declare Function PeekMessage Lib "user32" Alias "PeekMessageA" (ByVal lpMsg As Message, ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsgFilterMin As Long, ByVal wMsgFilterMax As Long, ByVal wRemoveMsg As Long) As Long Private Sub OnApplicationIdle(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Do While AppStillIdle() UserControl11.Render() Loop End Sub Private Function AppStillIdle() As Boolean Dim msg As Message Return (Not PeekMessage(msg, 0, 0, 0, 0)) End Function Private Sub StartMainLoop() AddHandler System.Windows.Forms.Application.Idle, AddressOf OnApplicationIdle End SubDo you see any mistakes in my code?
[Edited by - MePHyst0 on January 25, 2006 3:07:58 PM]
For starters, and it may be from just pasting a fragment of your code, where are you calling StartMainLoop() to attach to the Idle event? Just want to get that out of the way first.
Also, are you calling Application.Run()? I'm assuming you are, but there are alternative ways to doing this that you may be trying which could be causing issues.
~Graham
Also, are you calling Application.Run()? I'm assuming you are, but there are alternative ways to doing this that you may be trying which could be causing issues.
~Graham
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Here's the missing code:
Sub Main is the entry point of my application.
Thanks for your reply. Here's the missing code:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load StartMainLoop() End Sub Shared Sub Main() Application.Run(New Form1) End SubSub Main is the entry point of my application.
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