65k cleanup Slows Game to a Crawl

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I am running in to an issue where I am getting 65k cleanup massages and then the game gets very laggy. This happens after running the game for 30 seconds. The game has 1 enemy that calculates a path every .5 seconds.

Is there a proper way to continuously calculate a path? At later levels in the game, there will be hundreds of enemies that will need to path find.

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Hi

You cannot just be calculating one path every 0.5 seconds. Then to calculate 65000 paths would take about 9 hours. Sure nothing else is going on?

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Here is my code:

private IEnumerator UpdatePath() {
	if (enemy.target == null){
		if (!searchingForPlayer){
			searchingForPlayer = true;
			StartCoroutine(SearchForPlayer());
		}
		yield break;
	}
	
	seeker.StartPath(transform.position, enemy.target.position, OnPathComplete);

	if (state == State.aggro) {
		yield return new WaitForSeconds (1f / updateRate);
		StartCoroutine (UpdatePath ());
	}
}

The updateRate variable is set to 2.

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After posting this I found a snippet of code that was calling update path every frame. Which was the issue.

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