Re: Too Big?

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Steve Baker (sbaker++at++link.com)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:42:20 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Allen, Donna N wrote:

> 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?
  
Sounds like it. You are assuming that the size of a '.flt' file on disk
is somehow a 1:1 correspondance with the amount of memory that a similar
Performer data structure will consume in main memory. This is very far
from the truth (although I confess that I don't know what the actual
ratio is likely to be).

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