[sldev] Memory usage observations - somewhere to focus

[Tateru Nino]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 16:27 +1000, Tateru Nino wrote:
>   
>> Anyway, in the event of a lost circuit or crash from the shudderingly 
>> slow performance, it can take an easy five minutes to log out the viewer.
>> Then I discovered something interesting.
>>
>> Starting the viewer up took a really long time, and after logging back 
>> in, performance was no better. The whole machine was suffering with high 
>> levels of paging activity. Numerous times I lost my circuit again. Rinse 
>> and repeat.
>>
>> And then I decided to spend a few minutes doing something else - so I 
>> closed the viewer I had laboriously started, without logging in.
>> Then I changed my mind and started the viewer up again. Fast! Logged in! 
>> Fast response, better frame rates, no thrashing on the pagefile.
>>     
>
> Interesting. And you tell us little about your system. Windows? Windows
> XP? How much RAM do you have? Do you have anti-virus or anti-spyware
> crap clogging your machine? (Yesterday I discovered Windows Defender
> will choke a low-ram (256mb) machine dead.)
>
> Is this the official build? What version? Is this reproducible on Linux
> or OSX? Is it reproducible if compiled without SmartHeap?
>   
Standard viewer, WinXP, 1.25GB physical RAM. No cloggy antivirus, 
spyware or antispyware running.
Official build. Do not have the facilities to test against Linux or OSX 
at present.

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Tateru Nino
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