Lua and used memory grow

[Aily]

I found that Leadwerks2, Leadwerks3 and my own lua-driven projects eating memory. It grows each frame.

 

After adding

 

collectTime=collectTime-AppSpeed()
if collectTime<0 then
collectTime=60
collectgarbage('collect')
end

 

in main loop, seems like used memory stay same size, but "lags" became very visible on collecting garbage.

 

Does anyone here thinking about it, and can make nice smooth results for garbage collecting in Lua?

[Aily]

My best soluton for now is

 

local memoryUsed=math.ceil(collectgarbage("count")/1000) -- in Mb
if memoryUsed>80 then
collectgarbage('collect')
end

 

if used memory more than 80Mb - do garbage collection.

 

Single lag per minute is not so visible

[YouGroove]

One more thing to drive us to full C++ projects.

Just need a solid C++ game framework.

[Josh]

It's best to just let Lua automatically run the garbage collector, rather than constantly calling it.