[opensource-dev] Script Memory Management Algorithm

[Erik Anderson]

So...

If the script hits a memory wall, there's no way to transparently increase
that wall and start reporting that the script is taking more RAM?  Or has
the stack+heap collided with each other at that point and there's no way to
reform the memory space?  Isn't this already something that scripts are
currently doing with their one-way llGetFreeMemory function?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Dickson, Mike (ISS Software) <
mike.dickson at hp.com> wrote:

> I'm inclined to agree.  Not to mention addressed the cost of maintaining a
> forked version of mono and the effort to forward port it into new releases.
>
> I suppose it's possible that a change to malloc could make script memory
> allocation problems much simpler but that seems highly unlikely.  More
> likely you're trivializing a complex problem (in addition to allocation
> there are the issues of migrating the heap across simulators if a script
> moves, etc).
>
> Mike
>
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> To: Carlo Wood
> Cc: server-beta at lists.secondlife.com; opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Script Memory Management Algorithm
>
> On 2010-03-09, at 07:26, Carlo Wood wrote:
> > This is exactly the kind of reaction that drives me away from here.
> >
> > I propose a simple way get FOUR times the memory for all the
> > scripts, at
> > no other cost than adding some malloc code to your mono engine.
>
> I don't think you have established that.
>
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