Re: Multigen load is real slow...

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:01:18 -0800

On Nov 15, 1:36pm, Russell Suter wrote:
> Subject: Multigen load is real slow...
> Hey again,
>
> I have a Multigen database that took a little less than a minute to load
> with pf1.2 and Irix 5.3. Since going to the IR with pf2.1 and Irix 6.2,
> the load takes about 2.5 hours. Yes, that's hours. What happened?

I can imagine some circumstances where you might use more RAM in the new loader
than in the older one. This has to do with large color palettes and external
reference palette overrides. Raise your notify level to PFNFY_DEBUG and verify
that you are not reloading the same external references more than once, unless
you intended it. To help you fully, I will ask you these questions for
starters:

What version of the OpenFlight loader are you using with 2.1?
What Flight or OpenFlight version is the database(s)?
Are you using external references? What version is the referencing file?
Are you using MIPS II binaries?
How much RAM does you machine have?
How much swap space does your machine have?
What are your shell "limit" values?

> I'm guessing that its not using physical memory but starting to do virtual
> paging a little too early. The problem occures in my application as well
> as perfly. The first part of the load is real fast but it reaches a point
> and just crawls.

Use osview or gr_osview to verify your suspicion. If you are hitting swap
space then the short answer is to buy more RAM.

Regards.

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