Re: Too Big?

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Rob Jenkins (robj++at++quid.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:16:43 -0700

On Apr 7, 1:37pm, Allen, Donna N wrote:
> Subject: Too Big?
> hi,
>
> I'm trying to load a 152MB Open Flight database with about 150 KB of
> texture into perfly on an Indigo 2 Extreme with 250 MH processor and 256
> MB Ram. I crashes with a memory allocation error. I would think 256MB
> ram would be enough for this. Is this too big?
>

You need to account for other stuff running at the same time, look at the
output of 'top' or gmemusage to see how much memory is in use. You could get it
running by adding swap space, see man swap but if you're swapping then it could
be slow.

> Also, I heard that you can convert to Performer binaries, but have no
> idea how to do this. Could someone help?
>

There's a utility called pfconv to convert from any format performer can read
into pfa ( ascii ) or pfb ( binary and fast loading ). pfconv has a man page
for more info.

Cheers
Rob

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Donna
> Donna Allen
> Boeing Philadelphia phone: voice:
> 610-591-7963
> Flight Simulation Lab fax: 610-591-5636
> donna.n.allen++at++boeing.com lab: 610-591-7971
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