Help! My project is crashing and I don't know why! :((

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Point of correction: I thought constantly-increasing memory use was something I was doing wrong.

It appears this is just something Codea does.

And it’s not constantly-increasing, it’s cycling. Even in a project just drawing a rect onscreen, my overlay with @Yojimbo2000’s profiler shows the memory use rising slowly to around 1000, resetting itself to around 400, and starting again.

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there is automatic garbage collection every minute or so, which is why it drops suddenly

(it doesn’t collect garbage often because it hurts performance)

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Yes, the cycling and automatic collection is normal. But if you are constantly redefining large images, you do occasionally need to give it a hand with collectgarbage().

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@yojimbo2000, you seem to have hit the nail on the head. Many, many thanks.

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No problem, glad it worked.