My tests of Jeremy's same network on 3.1.4b did not appear to have
memory problems, at least not in the same magnitude of OpenDX. The
amount of free memory remained right at around 62.6 MB (no image caching)
and 67.1 MB total, jumping up and down a little. With OpenDX, I was
losing .5 to 1 MB at each time step. (I ran some of my own animations
with OpenDX and did not have any memory problems, about 25.1 MB remain
free with jumps up and down on the order of .1 MB. Afer 70+ frames the
amount of free memory is still the same.)
Running Jeremy's network on Windows 98, I get the same problem of using up
all the memory, at about 1 MB per time step. I thought the problem was
coming from just one of the OpenDX module's in his network.
The other thing to note is that I think the area designated for small
items fills up first and then starts using space allocated for large
items.
Jeff
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Richard Gillilan wrote:
>
>
> I've seen what may be a symptom of the same problem and I've seen it for a
> very long time, even with the commercial DX. When I run DX on a remote
> machine (SGI Irix 6.5 with OpenDX in the most recent case) through
> an X window on my local SGI (with setenv DISPLAY) I have noticed that
> the Xsgi process on my local machine (owned by root) grows and grows
> with every use of DX until memory is exceeded and very bad things happen
> (X dies and sometimes the whole machine dies). At first I thought this was
> related to my use of hardware rendering, but it also happens in software
> mode too. The only way to clean up Xsgi's memory that I know of is to
> do a console reboot using the magic key combination (control-shift-/-F12).
> I don't recall if this happens when I run from the commercial version of DX
> on the IBM SP2, but I'll bet it does. I'll see if I can do a few more tests.
>
> Richard
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> ps. please respond on opendx-dev, since that is the only list I'm on right
> now.
>
> Thanks
>
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