Question

I want to insert 200 5Mb records in my Core Database. But when I save the NSManagedObject, the memory wasn’t released (autoreleased pool didn’t help), and after inserting 30 records I got the memory warning and the application crashed. Here is my code

- (void)SaveItem
    {
        NSString *entityName = kEntityName;
        AppDelegate *appDelegate = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
        NSManagedObjectContext *context = appDelegate.managedObjectContext;
        NSEntityDescription *entityDesctiption = [NSEntityDescription 
                                                  entityForName: entityName
                                                  inManagedObjectContext:context];
        // check if town exists
        NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"id == %d", self.imageID];
        NSFetchRequest *requestToCheckExistense = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
        [requestToCheckExistense setEntity:entityDesctiption];
        [requestToCheckExistense setPredicate:predicate];
        NSArray *objects = [context executeFetchRequest:requestToCheckExistense error:nil];
        [requestToCheckExistense release];
        if (objects == nil)
        {
            NSLog(@"there was an error");
        }
        NSManagedObject *object;
        if ([objects count] > 0)
        {
            // edit item
            object = [objects objectAtIndex:0];
        }
        else
        {
            // if object doesn't exist, find max id to imlement autoincrement
            NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
            [request setEntity:entityDesctiption];
            request.propertiesToFetch = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"id", nil];
            NSArray *allobjects = [context executeFetchRequest:request error:nil];
            [request release];
            NSInteger newID = 1;
            if ([allobjects count] > 0)
            {
                NSNumber *maxID = [allobjects valueForKeyPath:@"@max.id"];
                newID = [maxID intValue] + 1;
            }

            // write item
            object = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:entityName inManagedObjectContext:context]; 
            [object setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:newID] forKey:@"id"];
            self.imageID = newID;
        }
        // fill NSManagedObject
        // size of objNSData is about 5MB
        NSMutableData *objNSData = [[DatabaseManager sharedDatabaseManager] encryptedDataFromImage:bigImage];
        [object setValue:objNSData forKey:@"big"];

         [context save:nil];
     }

When I commented

[object setValue:objNSData forKey:@"big"];

everything was OK.

I tried to add the code into @autoreleasepool , but that didn’t help.
I know, that now, when I save data to database, it’s still in iPhone RAM. How to release it from this memory? When I get a set of Managed Objects from the database, they are not in the RAM (I can easyly get 100 object, each of them has 5Mb fields)

Answer 1

I’ve solved the issue.
after call of [self SaveItem];
I used

[context save];
[context reset];
[context save];

all the NSManagedObjects from the context will be released.
After that operation I can add as many big objects as I want