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Hi
Here is a little snippet of some code I have written recently, its working as I intended apart from the fact that I cant seem to free the large chunk of memory I am using. I am clearly misunderstanding something about variable scope and garbage collection I my main Lua file I have local langSpecifier = 5 local language = {} if langSpecifier == 1 then language = require("english" elseif langSpecifier == 5 then language = require("frenchBig") end frenchBig.lua looks like this local french = { [1] = "This is French message 1", [2] = "This is French message 2", [3] = "This is French message 3", ......... snipped most of the 5000 rows for brevity here [5000] = "This is French message 5000", } return french then at the end of main.lua I do this to free they big memory table as I am done with it print (string.format("Memory used at end = %.1f kbytes", collectgarbage("count"))) language = nil -- I was expecting this to free most of my memory collectgarbage("collect") print (string.format("Memory used at end after garbage collect = %.1f kbytes\r\n", collectgarbage("count"))) Output is Memory used at end = 1314.4 kbytes Memory used at end after garbage collect = 722.5 kbytes normally my idle state memory usage for a minimal test script is about 90 kbytes. So that big table in the require file is likely not being freed totally by the garbage collection. I don't understand why that is happening Any thoughts or explanation would be appreciated Thanks Geoff |