Actually I was just in the process of writing an email to confirm that I
see the same problem using Windows NT. OpenDX was using an additional .4
to .5 MB of memory at each time step.
I also ran the network on Linux last night, using Suhaib's OpenDX
version 4.0.7, and the memory problem was not really present. I
think opendx was using slightly more memory at each step, but I believe it
was in the magnitude of 1 or 2 KB at each time step. It also seemed to
run faster than the Windows 98 version. I was using 8-bit color and I am
not sure how much that had to do with the improved performance.
Jeff
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi! I'm the original poster about the possible memory leak issue, and I just
> wanted to clarify a few things in response to the other posts on this topic.
> I
> hope this message gets posted in the right thread...Problems with internal
> mail have kept me from receiving the list messages, so I can't actually
> "reply"
> to the thread.
>
> In response to Suhaib's post:
> > 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 running 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.
> Actually, I was able to create the problem under NT as well. The problem is
> not with CPU resources, but memory usage. It seems like OpenDx isn't
> releasing
> memory somewhere, so eventually it fills up its memory limit (-memory 200)
> and
> won't release any of it. Nothing effects the system, except the dx network
> won't run until you disconnect/reconnect the dxexec to force the release of
> memory.
>
> Thanks for the responses! Let's keep at it so we can figure out what's going
> on here...
>
> Jeremy Zoss
> Southwest Research Institute
> (210)522-3089
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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