koobas.hobune.stream
ManagedHeap.ReservedUnusedSize
Hi guys, can someone explain to me what the "ManagedHeap.ReservedUnusedSize" is in the profiler? That entry starts at around 200kb when I start my game, but it goes up to even 20mb at times. It may be worth saying that I am loading a pretty big text file, however I am destroying it after I am done with it. That alone is about 6mb worth of data. Should I be calling GC.Collect after that?
Also the "ManagedHeap.UsedSize" increases and doesn't go down either.
Any ideas?
The memory used by $$anonymous$$ono only increases, it will never decrease, since this memory is not returned to the OS.
Hm.. so I cannot free this memory? Is this intended behaviour?
"The memory used by $$anonymous$$ono only increases, it will never decrease, since this memory is not returned to the OS." ^^ This is not correct. $$anonymous$$ono(/Unity) does return blocks of unused memory to the operating system.
That makes more sense. But how can I free this memory? I do clear all the references I find, however it's still reporting as "ReservedUnusedSize". Surely if it's unused I can claim it back.
The GC deter$$anonymous$$es whether a block can be freed - the best you can do is to be careful what/when you allocate, and then make sure you don't keep references to things you don't care about any more.
