Re: Xsgi & Performer

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:38:15 -0700

Are you adding the built graph to the pfScene on a channel?

I assume the growth is due to compiled display lists or openGL texture
objects.

850M seems like a heck of a lot of growth though if it's due to this
kind of thing.

Cheers,ANgus.

Wentao Lyou wrote:
>
> I am trying to convert a file to PFB format using pfdBuilder.
> The file has about 20000 polygons and a few texture maps with
> detailed texture.
>
> The odd thing during the conversion is that the Xsgi process start
> growing. The conversion process itself does not take much
> memory, however the Xsgi uses more than 850M "resident"
> memory.
>
> Can someone tell me what causes the X server to grow?
>
> Is the Performer rendering the scene to the X server even
> there is no window?
>
> Is there any way to work around this?
>
> BTW, I am running it on a Onyx2/IRIX 6.5.5.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Wentao Lyou
>
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