On Jan 16, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM, greenmoss <[email protected]> wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm running my game code on pyglet 1.1.4, and am seeing what looks to >> me like a memory leak. That is, while the code is executing the RSS >> continually increases until eventually my laptop starts swapping and >> eventually the code exits with a bus error. >> >> I investigated with guppy: I did a heap dump once at startup, once >> after the first slowdown due to running out of memory and hitting >> swap, then once this is detected I exited pyglet and did one last heap >> dump. I noticed that all three dumps showed approximately the same >> heap size (approximately 18 MB), even though htop shows the code is >> using gigabytes of memory. >> >> From what I've read, these heap dumps only show python memory usage, >> which means the rest of the memory would be occupied by C code. If my >> understanding is correct, this would seem to indicate a memory leak in >> the ctypes that pyglet is generating. My understanding of the >> underlying code is hazy, so please feel free to correct any incorrect >> terminology I may be using or any other errors in my understanding/ >> description. >> >> Here was the Apple crash report when I encountered the bus error: >> https://gist.github.com/1612500 >> >> Here is the code that contains the memory problem: >> https://github.com/greenmoss/NotOrion/tarball/bus_error >> >> I created a utility to automatically trigger the condition. To run it, >> download/untar the above tarball, then cd to the "demo" directory, >> then execute "./label_move.py". If you allow this utility to run >> continually, it should replicate the behavior described above. If you >> have a lot of free memory, it may take a while to use it all before it >> hits swap. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for getting past this problem? > > I'm not a pyglet dev, per se, but just for the record, what revision > of OS X are you on?
I'm on 10.6.8 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
