Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-30 Thread Tim Moore
John Denker wrote: ... Alas after doing that, the memory bloat remains, as bad as ever. I saw it peak at 905 megs at KASE before falling back to 888 megs. While were in the neighborhood: I did a fresh cvs update and the symptoms are the same, so we can't blame it on non-authoritative

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-30 Thread John Denker
On 01/30/2009 03:44 AM, Tim Moore wrote: Give the new version a try please. All better now. Thanks. VIRT = 460 peak, 440 steady state. Readers who aren't closely following the context should note that we are referring to the next branch of _simgear_. Point of information: there are 2.6

[Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat (was: engine reconfiguration?)

2009-01-28 Thread John Denker
On 01/28/2009 02:25 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: I didn't check it myself yet, but every once in a while I have to do a 'make clean' before 'make install' for this sort of things (both for Simgear and FlightGear) Good advice; thanks. Alas after doing that, the memory bloat remains, as bad as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat (was: engine reconfiguration?)

2009-01-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 28. January 2009, John Denker wrote: On 01/28/2009 02:25 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: I didn't check it myself yet, but every once in a while I have to do a 'make clean' before 'make install' for this sort of things (both for Simgear and FlightGear) Good advice; thanks. Alas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread John Denker
On 01/28/2009 09:55 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: bloat is a hard word for something, which you did not even measure yet. The VIRT column of top is basically useless for getting the memory usage. It's just the virtual address space allocated to that process. That includes: * memory allocated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread Tim Moore
John Denker wrote: On 01/28/2009 09:55 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: bloat is a hard word for something, which you did not even measure yet. The VIRT column of top is basically useless for getting the memory usage. It's just the virtual address space allocated to that process. That includes:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 28. January 2009, John Denker wrote: Ridiculing the bug report will not make the bug go away. I did not want to ridicule the report in any way. Apologies if it came like that. I just wanted to point out, that measuring memory usage unfortunately is not as easy as it looks (no,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread John Denker
On 01/28/2009 10:20 AM, Tim Moore wrote: Alternatively, try starting with /sim/rendering/random-vegetation set to false. Bingo. That makes a huge difference. VIRT = 371 instead of 888. I imagine there are a lot of trees around KASE... Yes.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM, John Denker wrote: On 01/28/2009 10:20 AM, Tim Moore wrote: Alternatively, try starting with /sim/rendering/random-vegetation set to false. Bingo. That makes a huge difference. VIRT = 371 instead of 888. I imagine there are a lot of trees around

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread syd adams
I noticed a change too after updating yesterday I tried several times to fly online around KSFO , and after 10 - 15 minutes , I came to a stop midair while the hard drive thrashed away ... I finally had to kill X to get back some control over my system ... It definately wasn't like this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread Michael D. Smith
syd adams wrote: I noticed a change too after updating yesterday I tried several times to fly online around KSFO , and after 10 - 15 minutes , I came to a stop midair while the hard drive thrashed away ... I finally had to kill X to get back some control over my system ... It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread syd adams
Thanks Michael, I'll try it out ... On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Michael D. Smith mdsmi...@highland.netwrote: syd adams wrote: I noticed a change too after updating yesterday I tried several times to fly online around KSFO , and after 10 - 15 minutes , I came to a stop midair