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Question Memory leak unity 2021

Discussion in 'Scripting' started by mrm83, Sep 14, 2022.

  1. mrm83

    mrm83

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    Unity20213.9f

    Have been experiencing memory leak since using unity 2021. I just tried using the memory profiler and noticed that within 4 minutes, memory allocated grew 10GB (editor). I am not even doing anything in the scene, and the scene doesn't even do anything other then the fact that it does a webquest, show some buttons, and thats it.

    Comparing the snapshots, I was able to see that these allocations all came from Managed Array System.Byte[]. There are hundreds (maybe even 1000+) of these System.Byte[] ranging from 0-100827136 in lengths.

    Now.. How can I see where these byte[] are coming from? None of the existing code creates byte[], more importantly, it shouldn't have a length of 100827136..

    #Update
    I tried checking memory on Android, I don't see the same System.Byte[], however, there is still memory leak as the same scene will eventually crash without interaction.. I am unable to find out where the leak is coming from.
     
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    mrm83, Sep 14, 2022
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  2. mrm83

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    Yes i am.

    The leak is also random. Sometimes it happens within 5 minutes, sometimes it doesn't happen in hours.

    I can't pinpoint where it is coming from except for the suspicion that this is a unity thing.
     
    mrm83, Sep 14, 2022
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  3. MartinTilo

    MartinTilo

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    What is referencing these byte []? And are you opening any memory snapshots while this increase is happening?

    Because the memory Profiler UI currently loads the entire managed heap as managed byte [] into memory, so if you are taking a snapshot while a snapshot is open, you're exponentially growing your managed heap usage.
     
    MartinTilo, Sep 15, 2022
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  4. mrm83

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    Yes, I had the snapshot opened.

    I realized byte[] wasn't causing the memory leak and crashing, it is something else.

    But I am unable to pinpoint what is causing it with profiler or memry profiler.

    Before upgrading to 2021, I've seen console message stating there was memory leak with a collection or something like that in 2020. the message no longer appeared in 2021 but there are random screen freeze crashing (but sound is working).
     
    mrm83, Sep 15, 2022
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