Memory Leaks Unresponsive Mouse

2009 8 core Mac Pro w/ 24 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon 4870, and a SeriTek PCIe eSATA card (card only has drives connected when running a manual drive clone). When running Toast 10 or Parallels 9, my RAM will fill up (I use a program called Menu Meters to monitor stuff). This machine worked just fine under OS 10.9 and earlier - no issues like this at all. ClamXAV will also completely fill the RAM up (the meter will be full green, instead of part green, then mostly grey when Toast or Parallels fills it up). I have to use Terminal to purge it so that the machine is usable.
The other thing that happens is that sometimes when the computer wakes up or I am in the middle of doing something, the mouse will still move, but the dock will not pop open and the left button the mouse doesn't respond. The right button will open the right click menu, but will not respond normally at all. I have tried a different Magic Mouse, but the problem is the same.
I thought that it may be a problem with the factory RAM and the Kingston RAM not playing nicely together. So I ran it with just the factory 8 GB and then ran it with the Kingston 16 GB - the problem persists no matter which RAM is installed. All of the RAM also passes the memory tests in Rember and TechTool.
So, I need to find out if someone thinks that maybe the bluetooth module may be going bad causing the mouse issues. I also need to find out what is causing the memory leaks. I followed the steps that someone gave on this site to boot into safe mode, repair permissions, reset PRAM, then reset SMC (or the other way around - I did it like they said to). It did nothing to fix the problem.
I need some guidance here. As I stated early on, the machine worked perfectly with OS 10.9. I have WAY too much software that I use, so doing a completely fresh install is out of the question - I don't have time to reload everything. This problem is annoying and I know that I am not the only one having these issues. Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Here is the EtreCheck report:
Problem description:
Memory leaks when using Toast 10 or Parallels 9. Mouse also become unresponsive (it will move, but left button does not work and dock will not pop open - mouse problem happens independent of the RAM being filled up - different mouse was tried with same result).
EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated January 9, 2015 at 9:20:59 PM MST
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In your code you haven't included the error clusters from the VIs. Most sub VI functions included in LabVIEW will have an Error In and Error Out port that will transfer any error information through the VI. If an error does occur in the code, the error will be passed through the rest of the VI. If a sub VI or function receives an error at its error in port the VI will not execute and the error will pass through until it reaches the end of the VI. At the end of a the VI there needs to be an Error Handler function to display the error information. As error information flows through the VI the same as the data, using error clusters is a good way to determine the flow of data through a VI. This is a good way to determine the data flow through the VI as opposed to Sequence Structures which should be used in moderation.
I have taken a segment of you code and made some minor modifications to demonstrate how error clusters can be used (see screenshot below).
Error clusters can be implemented into any logic for the stop condition of a while loop. The Unbundle by Name using the Status option can be used in conjunction with the error cluster to produce a boolean output depending on if an error has occurred. If an error does occur, the function will produce a true and if an error does not occur it will produce a false. The error cluster can also be expanded by hovering the mouse over the top or bottom of the function and dragging the grey box up or down. This is useful for when you want to produce multiple outputs from the same data, such as the histogram data in your VI.
Another thing I noticed in you code was some redundant logic. You had set the Stop button default on your front panel to true, which meant that an inverter had to be used to stop the first while loop and the stop condition in the last while loop had been changed to Continue if True. If you had kept the stop button default to False and the stop condition of the last while loop to Stop if True, the inverter on the first while loop would not be needed. This however is only a small issue but its something you could keep in mind when writing other code.
Hopefully these suggestions will help you to further develop you LabVIEW code. I understand that implementing these suggestions into you current code could be an issue due to the size of it, but they are good features to consider when developing any code in the future.
If there is anything you are unsure of please do not hesitate to post any questions. I will be more than happy to assist you.
Kind Regards
Jason W.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments UK & Ireland

2014.2 Crash by scrubbing - serious memory leak? (screenshot attached)

Hello. I've bought one year premiere pro cc plan. After upgrate from 2014.1 to 2014.2 I suffer with many crashes a day. I can't roll back, because I am in the middle of the feature film edit and new files are not opened by 2014.1
The most anoying crash is about memory use growth.
First - my system and sequence specs:
I have 48gb ram, intel i73930k processor, 4TB main drive and 3x250SSD drives for scratch disks. My Gpu is 2 x nvidia gtx 780 (3gb ram each). I work in 4k workspace and with uhd timeline 2.35 : 1 ratio. (3840x1628)
Second - how to crash.
I open the pproj file (about 8mbytes in size). It is a full feature film, i edit it in 3 parts for better performance. My main codec is cineform, both for HD previews and final 4K encoding.
Then I move playhead over any clip already rendered with preview (HD - mpeg or cineform).
Then I hold left mouse button and I start to scrub playhead left/right randomly along timeline, the problem unfolds: ram usage starts to go up, after some time of scrubbing it hits the ceiling and premiere crashes (along with eventual other apps opened as firefox).
It seems like premiere is registering every displayed frame in memory, even if it is already rendered as preview. And there is no limit set for doing this, so it overflows and crash.
As you see on the picture, in preferences there is 8GB reserved for other apps, and optimization for memory set.
Scrubbing over non-rendered clips makes ram eating even worse, crash occurs earlier.
I wonder - do you people have this similar problem? Could someone reproduce this inside any larger project (30 minutes of standard movie edit).
I would like to find solution, because I cant allow for so many crashes during serious production workflow.
nl

I'm having the same problem too.
I've been posting my issues on another post entitled, "Just spent $7000. on new custom computer and PremiereProcc2014 crashing". (see my NEW profile computer specs as of two weeks ago)
I've been experiencing about 25 crashes in an 8 hour period. Some after 1/2 hour and others back to back crashes.
I didn't even think of why it was crashing until I called support, whereas they took over my computer and showed me that even when timeline is PAUSED, YES EVEN JUST PAUSED, we watched the RAM clime and clime to the ceiling until Premiere crashed.
It's so frigg'in frustrating that people here are complaining and there seem to be absolutely no talk about this issue. It's probably the cause of many Premiere issues, in my humble opinion.
Strangely enough, the tech fixed the problem (but this has been happening to me often and even with my older computer). Anyway he stopped several Adobe related running programs in the background, and took my timeline to a new project.
Basically, I'm not sure exactly what he did to solve the problem, and sadly I suspect it will return as it always has done so.
One strange note is that he reset all my preferences back to the defaults. I'm talking about maybe 15 presets that I have including a handful of changed key-strokes (to my liking), and simple things like "double-click opens in same folder" and "don't replay timeline after rendering" and "don't go to beginning of project after end of play-line" and changed around my user interphase to my liking.
These type of customization shouldn't cause Memory Leaks? I just don't get it.

Crystal report XI makeas memory leaking

Hi all:
My application use vs2003/COM+ with independ crystal report XI and it has a serious memory leaking issue. After I generated the report, the memory grew twice and then soon the application is crashed after it is up to the maximum memory.Microsoft helped me to look at the dump user file and their concusion is that the Crystal report was build with Debug mode and not release mode. I never heard it before since I only add module to my deployment project and never know it has debug and release module version. So Can I please get help and how can I get the release crystal report module?
copid from the Microsft reply email:
Hello Helena,
Your custom modules are built in Release mode as per the configuration settings in Visual Studio, however, all the dlls that are built in Debug mode are listed below:-
crystaldecisions.reportappserver.commlayer.dll built debug
crystaldecisions.reportappserver.clientdoc.dll built debug
crystaldecisions.reportappserver.cubedefmodel.dll built debug
crystaldecisions.reportappserver.controllers.dll built debug
crystaldecisions.reportappserver.datadefmodel.dll built debug
crystaldecisions.reportappserver.reportdefmodel.dll built debug
crystaldecisions.keycode.dll built debug
crdb_adoplus.dll built debug
the crystaldecisions.crystalreports.engine.dll version is 11.5.3300.0
Thanks
Helena

You can not. The memory will never go down to zero - at least not as long as the app is running. There is a number of files, assemblies, etc. held in memory by the framework until the app is shut down. This behaviour is by design, and is actually quite important. First with an application more then one report can be loaded at one time, so the underlying dlls couldn't be unloaded until all reports for that application were closed. If we behaved this way, everytime a new report was opened we would need to load all our core dlls, search for optional dlls and read all the registry keys over again. This would be a performance hit in the speed of the report being viewed and on the entire system. By leaving our core engine open after the report is closed there is no longer this bottle neck, and really if we changed this we would get lots of complaints.
Now in general this is not that big of an issue for Windows applications as it is usually one user on a system at a time and 40 MB for a user is not much. For web applications I can see this as a potential issue, however if you are having 100 users at a single time running reports from your web application I might suggest that Crystal Reports may not be the best solution for you. I suggest you look at Business Objects Enterprise where you can offload the report generation from your Web App server to the Enterprise server to see if this would benefit you.
A memory leak would be if you see this number increasing for ever - unitl you run out of memory and the mchine become unresponsive.

Yosemite and Mail massive memory leak and excessive CPU usage

I've just installed Yosemite and upgraded to 10.10.2 via the AppStore. Now I have a problem with Mail sucking up all the CPU (>106% !) and memory (>8Gb and rising while doing nothing). Everything runs fine when I quit Mail. Very disturbing behaviour!
I've tried several suggestions found elsewhere on the board here, such as turning off and even removing all Mail plug-ins including SpamSieve, but without positive results. I've tried un-selecting 'Store draft msgs on server', as well as the option for junk and sent msgs. but again without any difference. Going Offline within Mail also makes no difference to its memory hogging or CPU usage.
I notice this is an issue that's been around since last year (wish I'd known that before upgrading to Yosemite today) and I am just completely flabbergasted that it still exists. Would've thought Apple'd have fixed it in the first but certainly in the second incremental OSX Yosemite release.
Is there anything else I could try that's proven to be effective in stopping Mail's massive memory leak?

Okay, I've run Disk Util and restarted. Seems to have made a little bit of a difference to the RAM gobbling in that it appears to be going at a slower rate, but it's still up at around the 45Gb after an hour. Here's the EtreCheck report in the hope that it helps.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.6 (109)
Report generated 28 January 2015 4:38:22 pm AEDT
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.
Click the [Adware] links for help removing adware.
Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,3
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        BANK 0/DIMM0
            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
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        Color LCD spdisplays_2880x1800Retina
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 2048 MB
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        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
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            Core Storage: disk0s2 499.42 GB Online
USB Information: ℹ️
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        /Library/Extensions
    [loaded]    at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (4231 - SDK 10.8) [Support]
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Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
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    [killed]    com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
    [killed]    com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist
    [killed]    com.apple.cloudd.plist
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    [killed]    com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist
    10 processes killed due to memory pressure
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
    [killed]    com.apple.awdd.plist
    [killed]    com.apple.ctkd.plist
    [killed]    com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist
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    [killed]    com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
    [killed]    com.apple.softwareupdated.plist
    [killed]    com.apple.wdhelper.plist
    8 processes killed due to memory pressure
Launch Agents: ℹ️
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Tool tip memory leak

I seem to have a memory leak associated with tool tips. When ever I place the mouse over a panel using tool tips I cas see the dynamic memory usage continuously increasing. If I comment out the call to the tool tip functions (i.e. SetCtrlToolTipAttribute), the memory leak dissapears.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello Michael,
I just tried to recompile the toolbox, but here's what I get. Something must have changed between version 8 and version 2010...
$ cd /usr/local/natinst/cvi2010; sudo chown -R someuser .
$ gcc -fPIC -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_GNU_SOURCE -I./include -I./toolslib/toolbox -I./toolslib/custctrl/custsupp toolslib/toolbox/toolbox.c -o toolslib/toolbox/toolbox.o
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `CVIAbsoluteTimeFromCNVTime':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2154): undefined reference to `CVIAbsoluteTimeFromTimeUnit'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `CVIAbsoluteTimeFromCVIANSITime':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x21c9): undefined reference to `CVIAbsoluteTimeFromTimeUnit'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `CVIAbsoluteTimeToCNVTime':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2257): undefined reference to `CVIAbsoluteTimeToTimeUnit'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `CVIAbsoluteTimeToCVIANSITime':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x22f0): undefined reference to `CVIAbsoluteTimeToTimeUnit'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `CVIAbsoluteTimeFromCVIUILTime':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x237b): undefined reference to `GetDateTimeElements'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x23e5): undefined reference to `CVIAbsoluteTimeFromLocalCalendar'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `CVIAbsoluteTimeToCVIUILTime':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2495): undefined reference to `CVIAbsoluteTimeToLocalCalendar'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x24e0): undefined reference to `MakeDateTime'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `PostDeferredCallToThreadAndWait':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x25a8): undefined reference to `CmtGetCurrentThreadID'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x25cc): undefined reference to `Timer'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x25e8): undefined reference to `PostDeferredCallToThread'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2607): undefined reference to `Timer'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `ToolBoxAtExitFunction':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2bed): undefined reference to `CVIRTEHasBeenDetached'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `DelayQueueDispose':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2c73): undefined reference to `DiscardCtrl'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2c88): undefined reference to `DiscardPanel'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `FreeThreadLocalResourcesCallback':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2ce4): undefined reference to `DiscardPanel'
/tmp/ccULcfdP.o: In function `ComparePanelZPlaneOrder':
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2daa): undefined reference to `GetPanelAttribute'
toolbox.c:(.text+0x2dc6): undefined reference to `GetPanelAttribute'

Apparent Photoshop Memory Leak

Over the last couple months I have been having what seems to be a memory leak problem with Photoshop. I'll be working on a document nice as can be, my screen will freeze, go black, then return with my graphics drivers telling me that it has just recovered from a failiure. At this time photoshop will not respond, and I am forced to close it, and lose all the work I have done.
The crashes usually happen when I am transforming objects, however it has happened while using vector, and raster tools like the pen, and brush.
I have been having this problem ever since I switched laptops from an Acer Aspire (Pentium 6 integrated win8 4gb RAM), to an Acer V3 (AMD A10 amd radeon 7660m win8 6gb RAM). On my last laptop that was noticably worse in terms of hardware, with this new laptop I've been having worse problems.
I use CS6 on both systems.
I have up to date graphics drivers, and I have updated photoshop to the latest patch (as of 16th December).
I am also not able to limit the amount of vram photoshop is allowed to use through the preferences, and it keeps resetting itself (every time the program crashes).
Part of me wants to blame the AMD APU that's in their A10 CPU, but I am not able to pin it on that system just yet.

xzenocrimzie wrote:
I have up to date graphics drivers
With an ATI card, unfortunately that's not the right approach. AMD has fallen on its face lately. Maybe they lost the guy who knows what he's doing, I don't know.
Try switching Photoshop's advanced GPU setting to Basic, and close and restart Photoshop.
If you've already done that, and it's not working, seek out Catalyst 12.8 and see if it's available for Windows 8. That's a decent (though not perfect) recent version. You'll have to uninstall the current version first in order to install the earlier one.
I have some hope for 12.12, but so far they've been completely unresponsive to my reports of problems with 12.10 and the newer betas. Apparently the Adobe engineering people can't get them to move on these problems either. Somehow it seems Windows 8 caught them off guard, even though Microsoft had released all those previews. But don't fret; 12.10 and newer don't work worth a darn in Windows 7 either.
-Noel

How to determine memory leaks?

I tried in XCODE, the RUN/ Start with Performance TOol / and tried out the various options. I was running my app and looking to see if it would report increasing memory use but it seemed to be looking at my total system (i was running under the simulator). In general what is the recommended procedure for determining memory leaks, which tool to use, and what tracing can i use?
How does one look at the retain count of an object? are there system routines that have knonw leaks?

You took the right path. Once instruments comes up select the Leaks tool. Turn off automatic leak detection. In your app, start off at some known state, do something, and come back to the known state and check for leaks. For instance start off in a view, do something that brings up another view then come back to the original view and check for leaks. Leaks will show you if you leaked. Since you took a very deterministic path then checked it should be straight forward to go to the code and find / fix the leaks. Leaks shows you where the code where the leak was generated.

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