Image Animator excessively loading

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Hey,

I am using a gif in a on one of my screens, which I am opening with swapWindow() through a gateway script. Whenever I do so, the ImageAnimator-Thread is started like 3 times, which isnt a big deal itself, but sometimes, when I am swapping to another window, it doesnt close properly, so if there are screens, that are heavily used, the slow down after a few hours, being nearly unresponsive with delay times up to 30s.
When I check the Thread-Viewer i see sometimes like 30+ instances of the ImageAnimator.
The Memory usage goes up from 250MB (after start of the vision client) to up to 2500MB (alternating between 2300 and 2800 within seconds).

what can I do (except removing the GIF and restarting the Vision Client) to handle this issue?

I am using Ignition 8.1 and the Vision Client.

Kind regards in advance

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How is this possible? Vision GUI functions are not present in gateway scope.

Please share your code so we understand what you are really doing.

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Also, what's your proof that ImageAnimator threads are the actual source of a memory leak?
Thread leaks != memory leaks. They certainly can be related, but there's no 1:1 correlation.

You should probably take this to support to get proper analysis.

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i am actually sorry. i am doing this through a tag change script in the client events.

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thanks, there is no actual proof for now. I was just assuming, when I saw the 40 imageAnimator threads in the ThreadViewer.
Thanks, will get in contact with the support.