Hi guys, I think you must be right that I am using up my RAM.
Drat, this is gonna be a pain in the bahonkus. I will prolly have to use some sort of piecemeal approach, like Richmond described. Thanks, Jonathan On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Richmond Mathewson < [email protected]> wrote: > On 17/04/2010 18:17, Andre Garzia wrote: > >> Jonathan, >> >> I have no clue there but I think if you host 400mb worth of images in a >> stack, then you will take a chunk equal to that of RAM for your app to run >> even with virtual memory this is a big requirement and if you want to copy >> this group around, then your requirement will scale. It might be wiser to >> host this images on this and just reference them, which might have the >> nice >> side effect of allowing smooth group copying. >> >> Then again, I don't know your software or your software needs so this >> commentary might be just ridiculous and wrong. >> >> I while back I made a stack that was 500 MB and tried to build a > standalone > from it on a G4 'ET' iMac with 256 MB RAM . . . being a bit slow on the > uptake > it took me about a week to work out that: > > 1. RunRev (2.0.1) couldn't cope because it had to load all that 500 MB into > 256 MB RAM and whatever Virtual Memory Mac OS X 10.1 was splurging > over the boot disk (which was also very nearly full of files. > > 2. That the 'clever' thing to do was to chop up the single stack into about > 200 substacks that opened on top of the main stack so that end-users > were > unaware that more than one stack was being used. > > The main stack popped the substacks into RAM when it opened them and > cleared out the RAM when they closed again; so as there were never more > than > about 3 substacks open at anyone time, the RAM overhead was > significantly > reduced. > > Having rewritten the 'thing'/beast it compiled as a standalone > lickety-split > and managed to run reasonably well on computers with128 MB RAM. > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Do all things with love _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
