:LoadCharacter() Memory Leak

[iamyourlordbowdown]

What happens is the Script/LocalScript does not terminate and keeps running. When outputting the Parent to the Console it appears to be parented to itself: running a loop that does not terminate on it’s own causes a very distinct Memory Leak and has serious Server Side consequences (e.g. parts being created on a loop multiply every time :LoadCharacter() is called because a new consecutive loop is created with the old one still running).

1. Create a loop in any Script
2. Put the Script in StarterGui/StarterPack
3. Call :LoadCharacter() from the Server.

loadcharacter bug repro.rbxl (29.7 KB)

[PeZsmistic]

This sounds related to this issue:

Task.wait() does not respect script.Disabled and always resumes

This also occurs if the script is destroyed. The code will continue to run even if the script is disabled or destroyed, which can leak memory or cause unintended behavior. A case where I think I would run into problems with this is with client character ability code. Some of my abilities have infinite loops that raycast regularly or do other processing. If the character dies and I have one such script running in their character, the loop will never stop and rapidly start running duplicates as t…