Remaining memory and lists

My script has a large list that uses all my memory. as my free memory shrinks to nothing, I remove the oldest list items; however, this does not cause the free memory to increase again. I was told (before being called a helpless newb, lol) to recalculate the list length after every list delete operation but don;t fully understand. How can I increase available free memory? thanks

Odd. Recalculate the list length, you say?

Try running llGetListLength() on a list immediately after removing items from the list. See if that helps. (Please come back and tell if it does, I've never heard of this before, and this could keep a project I'm working on from exploding.)

I'd already tried that, it didnt help

Report it as a bug. *sigh* I hate these memory leaks. (Be sure to be very detailed. Include a copy of the script, if you don't mind the Lindens getting a hand on it.)

I have a test script

thanks Mole

[EDIT]Check out this thread for reading TWO note cards... (hehe then chop it in half!)

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Why not try reading from a note card?

aye, thanks, but 'reading' isnt a problem; it's writing I'm doing. (real shame you can't write to notecards!!!)

I have a couple of alternatives to my problems now, but still wonder why memory doesnt seem to be released. )