Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:31:17 -0700
What's on the core file stack?
george williams wrote:
>
> Not Performer-related, but multipipe OpenGL.
>
> I recently had to write an OpenGL application across three pipes;
> On one pipe, it works fine. On three pipes, it *crashes* the machine
> after about a minute running. This happened repeatedly. No
> degradation in performance occurs up to the point of *crash*.
>
> I know that *crashing* can be a sympton of many things gone wrong,
> not necessarily having anything to do with graphics or using multipipe
> pipes.
>
> Before I really start to debug this thing,
At least tell us what's in the core.
Sounds like it's probably your code.
> ... I am just wondering if anyone
> has had similar experience with a multi-pipe, Ogl app.
This shouldn't be a problem. The difficult stuff with multipipe is high
performance and that requires multiple processes IPC, multibuffering
etc.
Maybe you should use Performer ;-)
Cheers,Angus.
-- "Microsoft's system was like a forest that hadn't had a controlled burn in decades, just waiting for one person with a match to turn it into a disaster. Melissa was Microsoft's fault. They left their system wide open to this sort of abuse, they knew it could happen and did nothing." -- Bruce PerensFor advanced 3D graphics Performer + OpenGL based examples and tutors: http://www.dorbie.com/
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