Re: question about Drop

[James Marshall]

Hi,
  strange, I'm now doing that... my objects contain ListIndexes, so 
for each ListIndex I call deleteAll, then drop it. Finally I call the 
drop method of the super class. e.g.

-(void)drop
{
  [[aList getCollection] deleteAll];
  [aList drop];
  [super drop];
}

But the memory usage on my system only rises, never falls (on Windows 
NT 4.0 with Swarm 1.2, no EZgraphs or anything... simply logging 
results to an OutFile). This is a potential problem as I'm 
doing a parameter sweep of a 100 runs of the model, and I think it 
will run out of memory. I'll have to wait and see if it reclaims some 
memory when it runs low.
        James

> 
> I believe that swarm's default drop does not drop 
> objects pointed to by the object being dropped.
> 
> So yes, you have to overide drop if you
> want to drop beyound the top object.
> 
>   - r
> 
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> On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, James Marshall wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:54:18 GMT
> > From: James Marshall <address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: question about Drop
> > 
> > Hi,
> >   I'm not quite clear on the action of the default Drop method... 
> > will this also deallocate storage for objects contained within the 
> > object being dropped, or do you need to override the Drop method and 
> > do this explicitly? Thanks,
> >     James
> > 
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> > Sciences
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