From: howxn++at++ivlab.com.sg
Date: 02/13/2001 21:00:04
Hi,
We are using Performer 2.2.
>
>We've taken pains to avoid allocating any memory in the draw process, so
>it looks like you may have found a bug. Which version of performer are you
>using?
>
>-- Marcin
>
>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 howxn++at++ivlab.com.sg wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a question on how the shared arena is working.
>>
>> i) Does the draw traversal allocate memory into the shared arena each time
it
>> is executed? Is it a standard action of performer?
>>
>> ii) If not, is there anything to avoid such action?
>>
>> iii) Is there any function to clear the shared memory apart from pfDelete?
>>
>> My scenario is this: I am running on an IRIX64 6.5 machine, n32 programs,
with
>> quite a huge database. The machine has 4 processors and I used PFMB_DEFAULT
>> for the multiprocess. I used pfb loader to load all my models at initialization
>> times, and apply switch nodes for each model for different settings. By using
>> the software(arena_debug) by Ran Yakir(thanks!), I noticed that each frame
the
>> program (the draw process) is allocating some memory into the shared arena,
>> thus causing the memory to increase slowly, and eventually the program terminates
>> due to insufficient shared arena size.
>>
>> I need urgent help on this, so any suggestion to remedy this situation will
>> be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Xian Neng
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