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Sikuli is using a lot of RAM

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I've just seen how much RAM is Sikuli using..write in this moment task manager is showing me that Sikuli is using 101.524MB!! Is this normal? After all, that's a lot of RAM and it doesn't look good to me.

Also, Sikuli is starting very very slow..I wait few minutes until I can see the program.

I should mention that later versions of Sikuli were better - the start was faster, and they didn't eat so much RAM and I had no errors regarding insufficient memory. At this moment I've tested version 0.10.1 on 4 (four) computers and one had even 6GB of RAM with a quad 4 processor but there still were errors about insufficient memory throwing by Sikuli.

Anybody knows something about these things?

Many thanks!

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Tsung-Hsiang Chang (vgod) said : 		#1

It's caused by a memory leaking bug.

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Sikuli User (hidden-hidden) said : 		#2

Thanks. That's too bad. I have a script of only few lines and I also use regions at this moment to avoid letting Sikuli to check the whole screen(2048x1152).

Is there any advice I could use in order to avoid that bug?

Thanks!

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Best Tsung-Hsiang Chang (vgod) said : 		#3

Sikuli 0.9.9 doesn't have this memory leaking issue, its API is not comprehensive as 0.10's though.
But if your scenario is not that complicated, you can use 0.9.9 as a temporary solution before we fix this bug in 0.10.

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Sikuli User (hidden-hidden) said : 		#4

Thanks Tsung-Hsiang Chang, that solved my question.

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belemekadem yassine (m-y-belemkadem) said : 		#5

Hello!
i'm using Sikuli Version X-1.0rc2 on Mac OS X 10.6.6
Once launched, Sikuli use 100-120 Mo of RAM
by execution 300 simple test cases ( 3 test cases repeated 100 times with a "for" loop ), sikuli use more than 500 Mo of RAM (sometimes 900 Mo ) and this RAM space is not released after the execution of these test cases

Is there a way to free the memory after the execution of test cases ?

Here is what my test cases look like:

import unittest
class TestSequenceFunctions(unittest.TestCase):
 def test_001(self):
  appSafari = App("/Applications/Safari.app")
  appSafari.focus()
  click( )
  click( )
  assert(exists( ))

 def test_002(self):
  appSafari = App("/Applications/Safari.app")
  appSafari.focus()
  click( )
  click( )
  assert(exists( ))

 def test_003(self):
  appSafari = App("/Applications/Safari.app")
  appSafari.focus()
  click( )
  click( )
  assert(exists( ))
  click( )
  click( )
  click( )
  click( )
  click( )

suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TestSequenceFunctions)
for i in range(100):
 print("test numero: "+ str(i))
 unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)