> > 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 OpenDx/Cygwin version Windows 98? That is a known problem. You have right to yell at M$ for selling the gloriously shitty product. Win98 itself has memory leak, which gets horrible when an X-application (X-server) is runing because Win98 tries to be selfish and hat to share resources with any other server... With X-server trying to share Display causes Win98/95 to start eating CPU resources and may once in a while will force you to reboot the PC..... because it gets horribly slow. That is why i use the M$ half-decent OS, which is NT. Suhaib Win95/98 are good for playing games, that is what M$ likes, "play games" > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > Jeff Braun Geophysics Dept. > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana Tech > (406) 496-4206 1300 W. Park St. > Butte, MT 59701 > > >
