System Information
Operating system: Windows
Graphics card: GTX 960
Blender Version
Broken: 2.80 9149e894210
Short description of error
Repeated hiding and unhiding of objects causes Blender's total memory usage to rise. Higher numbers of objects (presumably also polycounts) have a larger impact.
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Repeatedly hide and unhide any number of objects in the viewport - I used the eye icon in the Outliner.
This adds undo steps which use memory, unless the memory usage increased significantly since 2.7x it's not a bug.
Fair enough, makes sense.
Is it normal though for undo steps to take up more memory when the complexity of said objects increases? Even if the datablocks are linked from another library?
A cube, for example, adds kilobytes. A forest of linked trees adds tens of megabytes each time.
IIRC, the undo system save snapshots of the scene data (not diffs). So the more complex objects will add more to memory, yes.
Right, there are snapshots but only changed chunks of memory are stored.
Did a quick comparison and it seems this isn't working especially differently in 2.8x compared to 2.7x. Closing.
@Sam Van Hulle (sam_vh) - if you can show an example where this is significantly worse in 2.8x compared to 2.79 release. Open a new report with sample file.