I have a huge Memory leak. I need some help and advice to get rid of it.

[TTBGF]

Originally Posted by takuma089

Hi there guys. Want to update some. When .205 was leaked I immediately updated my Torch. And I experienced a huge memory leak. and recently downgraded back to .540(Vodafone Ireland) and had 208.9mb app memory and it sits still for a few days.

Sent from my BlackBerry Torch 9860 using Tapatalk

Sounds good to me.........when I'm fedup I'll try it out, thanks!

[zulfan_efendi]

I'm using 9860 for several weeks. Updated via DM to .579. Download some apps, and suddenly my RAM falls down to 70. WTF?! So I delete one by one unuseful app, still watching my RAM. An app which able to makes my BBM's avatar animated (forgot the name) is the one makes my RAM down. Now the RAM goes in 160 MB. I deleted all languages except English and Bahasa Indonesia via DM, using ubersocial insteadd twitter.
Sorry my bad English.

[Stompy]

I recently switched from a 9850 to a 9930. To my honest surprise, the memory leak followed me. Okay, fine. So it's gotta be an app I'm using or something I'm doing. So I did a battery pull Friday night, then changed some of my habits on Saturday, then went back to normal-ish on Sunday. Mostly, I didn't launch IM + Pro at all on Saturday, nor did I use any Media on the device (music, video, podcast) or use Bluetooth at all. On Sunday I signed in to IM+ Pro, used my phone to listen to Music and connected it to my bluetooth visor speakerphone. This morning I went all the way back to my normal routine, IM + Pro, speakerphone, podcast.

With this new Device Analyzer watching my "device responsiveness" I have free memory graphed out now and while I can't put this data anyplace useful at least I can see it mapped out. I can see a very steady drop early in the week, from one battery pull to the next. Then, one final pull on Friday evening, and according to the graph and meterberry, I've gone from about 199MB free to about 191MB free throughout the entire weekend up to the present, a crappy Monday morning. I've shattered my personal record for uptime without having to pull the battery, with one sidenote: I had left bluetooth OFF most of the weekend when I wasn't using the speakerphone and this morning after my drive in to work (with BT on) I noticed memory was starting to drop again. I know someone (several people, probably) have said it's not bluetooth, but since turning it back off this morning I've actually gained at least 1MB back - meterberry is set to reclaim memory when it can.

So normally my free memory graph looks like a staircase heading down...it loses memory at a regular beat, like it's evenly spaced. Maybe it's not an app that's running in the background, maybe I'm just doing something that triggers it. Usually seems to be worse after I drive to/from work. That's what headed me down the path of looking at playing podcasts and bluetooth, along with the fact I'm getting "device media processor is busy" errors now. I dunno, this is the straightest I've seen this memory graph ever since I started using it so I think I'm on to something. Of course, it's so much nicer to have a stable device and not see that meterberry icon change to yellow (indicating that free memory is dropping below acceptable levels again) that I hate the idea of experimenting to figure out what the root cause is, but of course I'll have to...

Maybe tomorrow. For today I'll keep bluetooth off and use the device like I normally would. We'll see how the memory holds up once I actually start doing some work here. :-D And it's not like I'm doing anything different anyway. I've had it leak down to the point of needing to be rebooted on a weekend where I barely used it anyway so *shrug*. I wish you guys could see this graph, it's amazing, but of course I uninstalled any apps that I could use to take a screenshot.

[Stompy]

Oh shoot. So much for my streak, I had a hard lock yesterday when I got home and paused the playback on a podcast so I had to reboot. Free memory was still fine to that point as far as I know...

[dustanh]

I browsed throught these pages pretty quick... but I have the same thing. I play music all day on my device and I have a memory loss of around 30-40 MB. I didn't really see an answer when I browsed quick, maybe too quick. But has anyone pinpointed why it does this or steps to follow so it doesn't do this?

Yes I know that a battery pull/reboot corrects it.

[Stompy]

No pinpoint yet, just a lot of theories. And no comment from RIM, not that we're sure they actually know about the problem.

But now that I've uninstalled BeBuzz and installed Advance OS and LED instead, I can sure tell you that wasn't the problem.

[dustanh]

Originally Posted by Stompy

No pinpoint yet, just a lot of theories. And no comment from RIM, not that we're sure they actually know about the problem.

But now that I've uninstalled BeBuzz and installed Advance OS and LED instead, I can sure tell you that wasn't the problem.

Yeah it is weird. I'm pretty good at getting around, but this has baffled me. I just kinda accepted it for now. It has happened on every OS I've had on my 9930. I havent tried it on .267... I should do that since I installed it this morning. I wonder if it has to do with grabbing albumn artwork over the network? Make sense?


***Edit: Yes... still dropping on .267. Darn.

[Stompy]

All the album artwork on my phone has been there since I last did wireless sync months ago and it hasn't changed since, so there's no reason it should cause the memory to fluctuate especially by 30 or more megs. But then again, who knows?

Maybe the leak has always been there and maybe the people who say it's not happening to them just don't realize it's happening? Or maybe they happen to reboot more frequently? I'm to the point where I'm about to give up on this and just reboot every single night, and completely ignore the amount of free memory on my phone. I troubleshoot computer problems for a living, I don't need this crap.

[dustanh]

True... I've kinda ignored it for now. Just reboot.

[maurojuve]

hi,

first, sorry my bad, bad english.

well, can anyone check if the wakeup alarm has something to do with the memory leak?

i have installed only facebook, twitter, msn messenger, and bb protect.

i noticed when i dont have an alarm o calendary reminder, and turn off the 9860 before sleep, and then turn on de phone the next monday, no memory leak at all.

but, when i set up the wakeup alarm and i turn off the phone and then it turn on the next monday with the alarm, the memory leak starts.


again, i am very sorry for my bad english.

[1magine]

Originally Posted by maurojuve

hi,

first, sorry my bad, bad english.

well, can anyone check if the wakeup alarm has something to do with the memory leak?

i have installed only facebook, twitter, msn messenger, and bb protect.

i noticed when i dont have an alarm o calendary reminder, and turn off the 9860 before sleep, and then turn on de phone the next monday, no memory leak at all.

but, when i set up the wakeup alarm and i turn off the phone and then it turn on the next monday with the alarm, the memory leak starts.


again, i am very sorry for my bad english.

It not the alarm. The alarm is probably playing an mp3. I'd its using the media processor. This is a media processor coding issue. It happens with youtube, an alarm, mlb atbat audio, etc.

[maurojuve]

Originally Posted by 1magine

It not the alarm. The alarm is probably playing an mp3. I'd its using the media processor. This is a media processor coding issue. It happens with youtube, an alarm, mlb atbat audio, etc.

ok, i will turn off the alarm today and i will check the next day to see what happen.

i will use another phone to set the alarm wakeup

[maurojuve]

hi again.

today the memory of the my 9860 is estable around 212 megas. it is 8:00am and no memory leaks is visible.

yesterday i turned off de wakeup alarm.

so maybe it is possible that the alarm has something to do with the memory leak.

please can you try this?

sorry my bad english again

[1magine]

Play music or a video than report on your memory stability. As I said before, your alarm aaccesses the media player. Anytime the media.player is accessed you will have an unstoppable memory leak.

[maurojuve]

Originally Posted by 1magine

Play music or a video than report on your memory stability. As I said before, your alarm aaccesses the media player. Anytime the media.player is accessed you will have an unstoppable memory leak.

hi 1magine, at this moment i cant use my phone because iam working in my job and y cant use my cell phone. i guess, the memory will be estable at lunch time. in that moment i wiil check the memory and i will comment about that.

maybe, in the afternoon y will play some music back to work.

but it seems you are right about the media issue.