Symptoms of a Memory/Data Leak

What are the symptoms of a memory leak in your game?

Would your connection slow down? Would you frame rate drop? And more importantly, how do I detect where it’s coming from?

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Press F9 to open the developer console and look at the Client/Server memory. Watch for numbers that increase dramatically.

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Symptoms of a server memory leak:
Increasing latency for all players
Poor server physics

Client:
Increasing FPS spikes(drops)
Increasing memory, specifically Untracked and Place categorized.

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If over time lag keeps getting worse, then its a data leak. So for example if lag gets worse until you reset. It was probably a client data leak. However if the server keeps getting laggy over time its a server dataleak.

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