[sldev] [PATCH] possible getCurrentRSS() hang/slowdown on OS X?

[darien_caldwell at comcast.net]

I wouldn't even say this issue is Mac related, I'm getting these stallys on my Windows client as well, only with the new RC8 client. 

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From: Soft <soft at lindenlab.com>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Michael Schlenker
> <schlenk at uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
> >
> > When stepping over with gdb it showed that getCurrentRSS() took 99% of the
> > time time for
> > the whole routine (about 10seconds), but the actual getCurrentRSS() code in
> > llmemory.cpp
> > is really fast in isolation (even with 4 GB memory on this Mac Book Pro).
> >
> > So i patched out the call in send_stats() and do not longer notice these
> > specific periodic
> > slowdowns on OS X, others still there...
> >
> > (in llviererstats.cpp around line 692)
> >
> >        agent["agents_in_view"] = LLVOAvatar::sNumVisibleAvatars;
> >        agent["ping"] = gAvgSimPing;
> >        agent["meters_traveled"] = gAgent.getDistanceTraveled();
> >        agent["regions_visited"] = gAgent.getRegionsVisited();
> >        // agent["mem_use"] = getCurrentRSS() / 1024.0;
> >        agent["mem_use"] = 100.0;
> >
> >        LLSD &system = body["system"];
> >
> > Can anyone confirm:
> > a) getCurrentRSS() is really slow inside the SL viewer
> > b) removing the getCurrentRSS() call fixes the 10-minute periodic hang?
> 
> Hmm - this sounds like it may relate to Ellen's comment on
> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1715