Random torque crashes
by Hugo Mardolcar · in Torque Game Engine · 03/01/2004 (3:49 am) · 4 replies
Hello everyone
At some point during the last month while I was finishing coding my agent-based AI system for torque a very strange bug appeared.
Sometimes, apparently randomly, torque would crash; this crash was located in the platformMemory.cc and was originated from an apparently random line in the C++ code or from the script.
The methods where it crashes in the platformMemory.cc are the checkUnusedAlloc and treeRemove methods, but sometimes it crashes in other places.
Right now I can only replicate this crash when I spawn many bots at the same time (at least 10) but the bug happens not only during spawns but also when the bots are walking around (but this is a rare event)
Does someone have any hint at what the problem might be? Maybe I'm allocating too much memory at the same time somewhere?
At some point during the last month while I was finishing coding my agent-based AI system for torque a very strange bug appeared.
Sometimes, apparently randomly, torque would crash; this crash was located in the platformMemory.cc and was originated from an apparently random line in the C++ code or from the script.
The methods where it crashes in the platformMemory.cc are the checkUnusedAlloc and treeRemove methods, but sometimes it crashes in other places.
Right now I can only replicate this crash when I spawn many bots at the same time (at least 10) but the bug happens not only during spawns but also when the bots are walking around (but this is a rare event)
Does someone have any hint at what the problem might be? Maybe I'm allocating too much memory at the same time somewhere?
#2
Dont know why this is happening and its only happens on shutdown.
Othervise no crashes.
I tried to figure out why this is happening but no luck so far .
03/01/2004 (9:40 am)
I have same problems AdamDont know why this is happening and its only happens on shutdown.
Othervise no crashes.
I tried to figure out why this is happening but no luck so far .
#3
But I also have the same problem as you guys during shutdown, but that's a secondary one, so I'll fix it later :)
03/01/2004 (10:29 am)
Ok, my problem is solved, it was a bug on my random name generator, I was incorrectly acessing an array...But I also have the same problem as you guys during shutdown, but that's a secondary one, so I'll fix it later :)
#4
03/01/2004 (12:37 pm)
Lol thats strange - i had assumed it was something I had done but maybe its a bit more common. Unless we've all implemented the same resource or something and thats introduced the same bug ! 
Torque Owner Adam Beaumont
Don't know if its the same as your problem - anyone know any debugging stuff that can be switched on with the memory manager ? there seem to be a couple of switches in the code which might do something....