Search Issue Tracker
Won't Fix
Votes
1
Found in
2019.4
2020.3
2021.2
2021.2.8f1
2022.1
2022.2
Issue ID
1408974
Regression
No
Memory leak when instantiating and destroying GameObjects with a collider
Reproduction steps:
1. Open the user's attached project "ColliderMemLeak.zip"
2. Open "SampleScene"
3. Enter Play mode
4. Click "Start" in the Game view
5. Observe memory usage in the Profiler window
Expected result: Memory is released
Actual result: Memory is never released, the Editor becomes slow and unresponsive after a while
Reproducible with: 2019.4.36f1, 2020.3.31f1, 2021.2.15f1, 2022.1.0b11, 2022.2.0a7
Note:
1. Tested with Mesh and Box colliders
2. "Total Used Memory" under the Memory module decreases slightly after clicking "Stop" but "Physics Used Memory" under the Physics module does not
Add comment
All about bugs
View bugs we have successfully reproduced, and vote for the bugs you want to see fixed most urgently.
Latest issues
- Android Player freezes on some Mali GPU devices when Lighting Cast Shadows changed to OFF at runtime
- Desktop Linux runtime does not respect -popupwindow command line argument
- Shader Graph more options dropdown button does not open the dropdown when clicked all the way to the right of the button
- “Attempting to draw with missing bindings“ warning lacks root cause indication and is thrown each frame when StructuredBuffer is accessed on DirectX12
- Shader Graph Import Settings documentation leads to "Sorry... that page seems to be missing!" page when opened through the documentation button in the Inspector window
Resolution Note:
The issue here is that element IDs for PhysX objects are never flushed and dynamic arrays that are indexed by them grow to infinity over time as the objects are spammed. Unused IDs are flushed in the PxScene::simulate() call of PhysX but since there are 0 active physics objects in the scene, the call is always skipped. Removing the 0 object check would be a performance regression.
Adding at least a single physics object to the scene circumvents the issue.