[opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

[Mike Chase]

On 10/02/2011 12:45 PM, Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:20:58 -0400, Mike Chase wrote:
>
>> One more note.  I have 16gb of memory on this system so the large heap
>> really isnt a problem per-se.
> It is, because you will not be able to get more than 3Gb of virtual
> memory per process, and when this virtual space gets fragmented (which
> *does* happen during "long" sessions with tcmalloc and its default
> release rate), your viewer will crash trying to allocate the next
> unfragmented space that won't fit its currently allocated but
> fragmented pool.
Is there a JIRA filed for this somewhere I can follow?  In the meantime 
I may try running the heap profiler.  I beginning to suspect not so much 
the allocator and more so a memory leak somewhere.

Mike