Hi my game has a memory leak and starts to become slow after 10 hours

[DivineTempest (Tempest)]

Hi my game has a memory leak and starts to become slow after 10 hours what can I do to find the source of the problem since it is a very big game. I am cleaning up tables, disconnecting touched events and cleaning instances it may be possible I could be missing something is there anything else that can increase server memory?

[Dyzody]

Debug using print() and if the delay is longer than normally, these parts of the scripts are causing the problem.

[MrMouse2405]

Maybe you will have to use Stats Service’s GetMemoryUsageMbForTag() function to do a deep diagnostic of the issue.

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[MrMouse2405]

Just came across this, are you sure you are using weak tables?

Memory Leaks and Weak tables

Similarly, any object stored in a global variable is not garbage for Lua, even if your program will never use it again. In both cases, it is up to you (i.e., your program) to assign nil to these positions so that they do not lock an otherwise free object. However, simply cleaning your references is not always enough. Some constructions need extra collaboration between you and the collector. A typical example happens when you want to keep a collection of all live objects of some kind (e.g., fil…

[Thedagz (Dagz)]

Roblox can also make mistakes sometimes functions that they create can cause memory leaks as well, I personally wouldn’t assume this is the case but it’s good to keep in mind.

Pretty much what you been doing is the best way to go, looking for any unused values and making sure there properly deleted and being set to nil