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Memory goes from 64% to 100% and wont go back down.

Should the memory reset once the scrape is finished? My memory starts at 64% and goes up to 80% by the time the scrape ends and then after the scraper is done it creeps up from 80% to 100%. The memory then sticks at 100% and the only way to reset it is to close the workbench and restart it. It I am using Mac os v10.5.8 and I have tried SS basic, SS Professional 30 day demo, and SS Enterprise 30 day demo. They all do the same thing.

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jerry on 03/07/2012 at 2:49 pm

OSX memory usage

  1. We've already seen on Mac that screen-scraper will start with 64% usage, but the same doesn't happen on other OSs. It's somehting about the JVM in Mac, but so long as the scrape is running well, that's fine.
  2. The memory usage indicator shows the amount of memory the scrape has alloted, so if you have something that needs a lot of memory, it will allot more and you see the percent go up, but it doesn't mean that much memeory is in constant use.
  3. When a scrape is run in the workbench, it doesn't free all the memory. It keeps the last request and response so you can work with them and that sort of thing. Server mode and the command line are much more efficent ways to run scrapes.
 jason on 03/08/2012 at 11:52 am

Thanks so much for the

Thanks so much for the information.

I thought I was supposed to use the workbench to make sure my memory did not go to 100%.

Is there a way to watch the current memory being used while the scrape is running in the Workbench and / or in Server mode and the command line?

 jerry on 03/12/2012 at 9:16 am

You can output it to the

You can output it to the logs:

http://community.screen-scraper.com/API/getMemoryUsage

 jason on 03/12/2012 at 4:21 pm