This is on linux-ppc , (2000 release with updated lesstif and a few
other packages). I noticed it in particular on my laptop, which has
192 MB of memory, so it is pretty easy to do things in dx which cause
massive swapping. It very quickly can consume 350MB or more of
memory, by which time swapping is so heavy that not much really is
happening any more. I have noticed this running many different nets,
none of which are particularly complicated (import, juggle a little,
RubberSheet and Image).
Marcus
Which platform? On my Linux station, the memory option is working just fine.
David
I just recently replaced my old dx-4.1.0 with a fresh compile of
the 4.1.1 cvs tree. I discovered that the memory limit arguments
to the executive are no longer honored, apparently. If I do
dx -edit -memory 256 blah.net
the executive is started with argument -M256 as it should be, but
then it proceeds to eat as much memory as it wants, rather than
stopping at 256 MB.
Has something been changed in the handling of memory allocation recently?
Thanks.
Marcus Mendenhall
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