Add reset_garbage_collector to sorta fix mem leaks

I added in a variable to force clearing the garbage collector more
often, so that the memory leaks involving awful.spawn.easy_async
wouldn't cause massive performance issues over time.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ram-widget/ram-widget.lua b/ram-widget/ram-widget.lua
index 867d28e..970c2d6 100644
--- a/ram-widget/ram-widget.lua
+++ b/ram-widget/ram-widget.lua
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ local function worker(user_args)
         return math.floor(value / (total+total_swap) * 100 + 0.5) .. '%'
     end
 
+    local reset_garbage_collector = 0
+
     watch('bash -c "LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 free | grep -z Mem.*Swap.*"', timeout,
         function(widget, stdout)
             total, used, free, shared, buff_cache, available, total_swap, used_swap, free_swap =
@@ -77,6 +79,11 @@ local function worker(user_args)
                   {'buff_cache ' .. getPercentage(buff_cache), buff_cache}
                 }
             end
+            reset_garbage_collector = reset_garbage_collector + 1
+            if (reset_garbage_collector > 9) then
+                collectgarbage()
+                reset_garbage_collector = 0
+            end
         end,
         ramgraph_widget
     )