secondlife / secondlife/viewer
[ExtraFPS] Memory leak
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bug
performance
team:viewer
- Dominant language
- C++
- Stars
- 299
- Forks
- 146
- Avg merge
- 1d 9h
- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
Environment
ExtraFPS, Mac M1
Description
Roxie's SL was using 15GB memory on a 16GB Mac M1, causing a 'beach ball'.
Callum is also getting 'beach ball', but it isn't confirmed yet to be memory related.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the ExtraFPS scenario on a Mac M1 while monitoring memory usage, then investigate where the growth originates. The issue is complete when the memory leak is identified and fixed, with memory usage no longer escalating during the affected workflow.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos
- Domain
- desktop, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100