Constant memory leaks; App Memory remains enormous even closing all documents

[Florida]

AP 1.9.3

Working with a single 12k x 12k pixel image loaded from file after a fresh start. Worked on it for about 10 minutes, mostly using the fill tool. Closed the image without saving. Checked the memory in Activity Viewer.

Real Memory Size: 4.8GB, Virtual Memory Size: 18.9GM, Shared Memory: 130MB, Private Memory: 5.34GB.

This type of massive memory leak happens all the time, I frequently have to save and restart. Fills to significant parts of a large image often freeze the entire UI; when it returns I sometimes see part of the image is now empty, or the fill did nothing, but undoing and refilling generally works the second time. I think your fill algorithm is both leaky and buggy.

 

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 Radeon Pro 580 8 GB

[Florida]

The frozen UI issue happens to me every day, it locks up not only AP but the entire machine for a variable number of seconds, often trashing the image or not doing anything at all.

[Florida]

Just now I pasted in a small image into a bigger one, the entire Mac froze and then all apps were forced to quit that were running in WindowServer and when I logged in again everything UI based restarted (non UI processes continued). Thankfully AP had at least saved a recovery file so I only lost a few minutes work. There is clearly something wrong with this release that causes the entire Mac to freeze (in this case it froze so long I suppose Big Sur gave up).

 

I would love to see what this code looks like.

[PaulD]

Same problem? Very slow loading app (~2min to load). Sluggish performance throughout usage, and has been getting worse with every IOS 'upgrade?'. Cannot use app in this condition.

[Chris B]

Is this consistently with the Flood Fill Tool?

Sometimes it can take a while for the fill to detect the edges and then actually do the fill - I've tested this on a 12k x 12k pixel image and I am seeing spikes in usage but so far I haven't had a crash on my late 2015 iMac.