Face.Surface : memory leak ?

[cristian.a73]

Hi FreeCAD Forumer

In my model, about 6000 faces from step my code is something like this :

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for f in Shape.faces:
 sf = f.Surface
 del sf

The FreeCADCmd run until all 4gb of free Ram was used (aprox 20kb per second), than crash with message about no memory available
How could access to Face.Surface class without cause a memory leak ?
Thank you
Cristian

OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 32-bit
Version: 0.18.15527 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 70aaf3e95fe2a3f17d43e95a1afe7d903d91b8ae
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)

[wandererfan]

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for f in Shape.faces:
 sf = f.Surface
 del sf

Maybe you need to force garbage collection? del isn't guaranteed to free up memory immediately.

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import gc
gc.collect()

[cristian.a73]

Maybe you need to force garbage collection? del isn't guaranteed to free up memory immediately.

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import gc
gc.collect()

Unfortunally gc has no effect

[DeepSOIC]

I think I can confirm.

0. install Lattice2
1. create polar array
2. set Count property to 10000
-> memory usage is 190 MB
3. paste this to console, multiple times:

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sh = App.ActiveDocument.ActiveObject.Shape
for f in sh.Faces:
 sf = f.Surface
 del sf

after 10 runs, memory usage is 500 MB

same will probably work with a Draft Array of boxes, but it consumes 1G of memory just by itself, so it's harder to notice.

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15518 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: e83c44200ab428b753a1e08a2e4d95e03236e481
Python version: 3.6.6
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Russian/Russia (ru_RU)

[DeepSOIC]

issue #0003771

[DeepSOIC]

This might be an OCC leak... If I just use Surface attribute many many times, memory use doesn't grow.

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import Part
cub = Part.makeBox(10,10,10)
f = cub.Faces[0]
for i in range(10000000):
    sf = f.Surface

[DeepSOIC]

And this leaks:

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import Part
cub = Part.makeBox(10,10,10)
f = cub.Faces[0]
for i in range(10000000):
    sf = cub.Faces[0].Surface

[wmayer]

It's a problem of the Python wrappers that create some cyclic dependencies. This causes the ref counter never to become zero and thus the memory is not freed.

[cristian.a73]

... a possible workaround :

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sh = App.ActiveDocument.ActiveObject.Shape
sfArr = []
for f in sh.Faces:
 sfArr.append(f.Surface)

for i in range(0,1000000):
 for sf in sfArr:
  print "sf:"+str(sf)
  ...