[Swarm-Support] memory problems

[Marcello]

Hi,
I have a swarm piece in Object C. It does everything using about 1% of
my 512mg of memory. Now I added one EZDistribution to each Agent (which
is a SwarmObject). The idea is that each agent creates a list of other
agents, passes it through a EZDistribution to get some statistics and
drop everything right after (see code). The problem is that when this
piece of code is in the program, the program sucks up a large amount of
memory, something like 5% of the memory each 100 calls to agents
(according to "top"). 
After some checks I know is the EZDistribution that creates the memory
problem, but I do not know how to solve it. Shouldn't my code create the
EZobject and dispose of it each time? 
Thanks for any help youcan provide
marcello

id a;
// here I create a "group" as a List. this does not create memory
problem.


 a=[EZDistribution createBegin: [self getZone]];
  [a setTitle: "stats"];
  [a setGraphics:0];
  [a setBinCount: 5];
  [a setLowerBound: 0];
  [a setUpperBound: 5];
  [a setCollection: group ];
  [a setProbedSelector: M(getTypology) ];
  [a createEnd];
  [a update];
  [a drop ];  //shouldn't this line dispose of "a"?
  [group drop];

thanks alot
mc

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