I’ve been running into a frustrating issue when trying to reorder actions in one of my larger apps. Each time I attempt to rearrange actions—even just moving one or two—AppSheet freezes, then crashes to a white screen with a browser message saying “Error code - Out of Memory” in Google Chrome.
I’ve tried a few things to reduce potential memory usage, like hiding the right-hand UI panel and toggling off the visual editor switch, but the issue still persists.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? I’m wondering if this could be related to the app size, the number of actions, or possibly something else I’m missing. Any suggestions or workarounds would be really appreciated.
The app editor also has some memory leaks and/or does a bad job of releasing unneeded memory. As I recall, the Views facet of the editor is particularly bad.
When I have problems with the app editor that I attribute to low memory, I’ll save the config, then do a hard reload of the page (Ctrl+Shift+R in Chrome). The hard reload clears the browser cache associated with the app editor. This usually reduces the memory footprint enough to allow me to move forward.
The low memory message doesn’t just refer to that browser page. It suggests that you have low memory available….PERIOD!
As an example, if you hover over a tab in Google it will give you the amount of memory used by that tab (see image). The question is, how many things do you have open in Google and how many things do you have running on the computer other than the browser? All of these add up. Close anything you do not need or want running.
If you are running on a Windows machine, you can open the Task Manager to analyze the memory usage and potentially determine some action to conserve memory for Google.
According to Google, Error Code 5 is usually related to a network problem. Looking in the upper right hand corner of the screenshot, it appears that WiFi has been turned off and there is no indication you are connected by wire. Either you need to turn on WiFi or plug in an ethernet cable connected to the Internet.
As evident from the following clip, despite the total memory used by both of my tabs are below 350 MB, the AppSheet crashes while re-ordering the action buttons.
I see you are on a Mac! And I guess I missed the ethernet connection icon in your initial screenshot.
The message you are showing now is related to a timeout behavior in Google Chrome. So, I would first perform a “clear cache” or “delete browser data” operation in Chrome to see if that corrects the problem.
