From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 07/04/2000 23:14:25
The ASD paging model exploits multiprocessing for asynchronous loading
of data.
Like other areas of Performer functionality that depend on
multiprocessing capabilities this will not work until that MP
functionality is released.
The single process first MP later schedule has been the stated release
objective from the outset.
Cheers,ANgus.
John Wharington wrote:
>
> Colin,
>
>
> Thanks for your response. I was attempting to use the variety of
> paged ASD demonstrations
> that have been posted on the mailing list and that were included with
> the linux Performer.
>
> I am new to Performer and I suppose couldn't really interpret fully
> the release notes describing
> limitations to the linux Performer to assess whether ASD's were
> supported or not. I did, though,
> naively assume that the code distributed with linux Performer would at
> least work!
>
> From my tests, simple ASD demos do seem to work (ASD_align, ASD_decal)
> but not
> any that use paging. I hope someone can prove me wrong on the latter
> -- I am working on a project where I will need to access a large
> terrain database with several LOD.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
>
> Johnny
>
> >
> > Missed your earlier posting...
> >
> > What do you mean by paged terrain-models ? Are you trying to use a
> > forked DBASE process or ASD ?
> >
> > I can probably help you with the DBASE problem but I didn't think
> > that
> > ASD was supported in the Linux version of Performer. Could be wrong
> > about that, but I'd be surprised if it was.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Colin
> >
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