Memory leak?

[d3adb5]

It seems there's a memory leak somewhere in bbZero. It starts off by using up ~11 MB of RAM and to some other people will stay between 10 MB and 34 MB of usage. I get a normal usage once it starts, but give it a few days and I get close to 100 MB, which is abnormal.

I change workspaces all the time, and I made an AutoHotKey script I'm running to manage wallpapers between workspaces. It might be completely unrelated to the memory hog problem, but thought I'd mention it. I change wallpapers through bsetbg -full path\to\file.png.

Restarting the shell through the menu option (Blackbox > Restart) doesn't fix it. To get to normal usage again, I have to quit the shell and start it again, which is a huge annoyance.

[xzero450]

There is a known issue with workspaces and memory leaks. This has existed since the beginning of bb4win. I'm not sure if one of the developers has addressed this yet, but I seem to recall them being aware of it. Thank you for reporting the problem, and sorry it hasn't been fixed in 2 decades.

Interesting. I'd suggest using other software to manage workspaces to avoid the potential for leaking, but then you'd probably end up at a similar amount of ram usage (although I never actually looked at how much ram virtuawin uses, I preferred it over bbleans workspace managment). I only ever have one workspace, and made it a point to have only one in my blackbox settings - so this is news to me, and makes sense to why I never had the issue.

[d3adb5]

How does virtuawin play with bbZero? I don't want to rely on even more hacks to get it working on all workspaces.

I used virtuawin + rainmeter on top of lean bar with great success. You have to learn to layer the rainmeter skins, as well as set what you'd like to follow each workspace. This works much the same as stickywindows, in fact I prefer the gui virtuawin offers.

Just make sure you disable other workspaces in blackbox beforehand, you can cause conflicts by swapping a bblean desktop workspace and virtuawin desktop workspace at the same time.

[d3adb5]

I'll give that a try when I find more free time. Thanks, xDemonessx.