Re: bug in autoDrop?

[Doug Donalson;]

Are you sure that they still exist in memory?  If so how are you
confirming it?  If you post this I will try it in my sim and see
if I get the same result.  

Cheers,

   Doug  

***************************************************************************
* Doug Donalson                          * Office: (805) 893-2962         *
* Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology * Home:   (805) 961-4447         *
* UC Santa Barbara                       * email address@hidden
* Santa Barbara Ca. 93106                *                                *
***************************************************************************
*                                                                         *
*   The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that             *
*   heralds new discoveries, is not "EUREKA" (I have found it) but        *
*   "That's funny ...?"                                                   *
*                                                                         *
*       Isaac Asimov                                                      *
*                                                                         *
***************************************************************************


On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Mirjana Majdandzic wrote:

> I'm still struggling with an Autodrop problem:
> 
> I use dynamic scheduling, and therefore I set Autodrop to 1.
> Actions should then be removed from the schedule and dropped once they
> have been executed.
> However, I found out that the actions ARE removed from the schedule
> (the size of the schedule does not increase steadily), but that they are
> NOT DROPPED (the object, to which the pointer returned by a scheduled
> action refers, still exists after the action has been executed).
> This results in a steady increase in the amount of memory used by the program.
> >From the manual I understood that Autodrop should actually drop
> the scheduled action.
> 
> It seems to me that this is a bug, or am I misreading the manual?
> (Besides, if I print the value of autodrop after I set it to 1, it returns 0,
> what certainly has to be a bug.)
> Does someone have a suggestion or comment ?
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Mirjana Majdandzic
> 
>                   ==================================
>    Swarm-Support is for discussion of the technical details of the day
>    to day usage of Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp.
>    [un]subscribing), please send a message to <address@hidden>
>    with "help" in the body of the message.
>                   ==================================
> 

                  ==================================
   Swarm-Support is for discussion of the technical details of the day
   to day usage of Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp.
   [un]subscribing), please send a message to <address@hidden>
   with "help" in the body of the message.
                  ==================================