This code causes Mathematica to slowly accumulate memory until it hard crashes my operating system. It does this by overwriting OS memory (windows start going black, graphics drivers start crashing etc.)
Table[RandomImage[1, {1000, 100}, ColorSpace -> "RGB"] // TextRecognize // StringLength, 5000] // Total Compare the above code to this code. This code does not have a memory leak.
Table[RandomImage[1, {1000, 100}, ColorSpace -> "RGB"] // ImageMeasurements[#, "Mean"] & , 5000000] // Total I've done enough testing to be pretty confident the issue with this line is with TextRecognize. My "real" application makes a lot of TextRecognize calls while monitoring computer screens and it always crashes after about an hour of running. I'd like it to run for at least 24 hours reliably.
I'm running 64 bit Windows 10 with 16GB of RAM. I have a machine with 128GB of RAM same problem.
Is there a way to force Mathematica to keep the memory usage in check? Is there an alternative way around this problem?
UPDATE:
Yes this is stupid code. No one actually recognizes text in random data. But, this allows anyone to reproduce the issue I'm seeing without passing around images. Copy paste this into your Mathematica install. Do you see the memory usage grow, so that after half an hour or so you've consumed 32GB of RAM? That's what I'm seeing.
UPDATE2:
I've demonstrated this issue on two completely separate machines [both Windoze 10, one 32Gig, one 64Gig RAM]. Wolfram Research cannot reproduce this issue on their test machine. If someone else could confirm this is an issue for themselves, I'd appreciate it.
Update 3:
I realized that for my specific situation, some of the workarounds proposed in this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8916732/mathematicas-textrecognize-not-up-to-par work great for me. Cross Correlation is (for me) a vastly superior solution than a buggy TextRecognize.
