On 6/4/06, Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think Inkscape does its allocating via the C++ standard library function like any other application. So I see no reason to think that hidden Linuxisms are the underlying problem here.
It looks like a FreeBSD issue to me because the failure occurs just as the physical memory is exhausted and the system starts to swap. And I believe the idea behind virtual memory is that the application does not have to know whether a page is in physical memory or swapped out. So the problem more than likely comes from the part of the system that "knows" what is happening, i.e. the virtual memory manager.
But you are right, before filing a bug report, more tests with other memory-hungry apps would have to be conducted. And maybe this issue, if it exists in FreeBSD 6.0, is fixed in 6.1 . However, I don't want to upgrade right now, as the system works well enough in all other regards.
Martin D.
Still you can assume that it eaily handles 1 GByte of RAM and more. My
bet is that the port of Inkscape to FreeBSD probably "doesn't match the
operating system close enough". My experience is that you often have to
deal with Linuxisms in OpenSource software which probably show obscure
behaviour on Unixes.
It looks like a FreeBSD issue to me because the failure occurs just as the physical memory is exhausted and the system starts to swap. And I believe the idea behind virtual memory is that the application does not have to know whether a page is in physical memory or swapped out. So the problem more than likely comes from the part of the system that "knows" what is happening, i.e. the virtual memory manager.
But you are right, before filing a bug report, more tests with other memory-hungry apps would have to be conducted. And maybe this issue, if it exists in FreeBSD 6.0, is fixed in 6.1 . However, I don't want to upgrade right now, as the system works well enough in all other regards.
Martin D.
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