Dahlia, On 22.11.2012 22:11, Dahlia Trimble wrote: > This sounds like something tcmalloc might help with. I believe you can link > it in at run time with a command line switch. It's at > http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/ Wow, that works like a charm. Blender memory use may have increased a bit though, but I'm not sure. Gotta check that later, will finish my bake now first. No more stalls between the simulation frames.
> Oh and a request to blender devs: if it works and it's something you > want, please make it optional because it doesn't like to release > memory back to the OS. >From reading into tcmalloc, it has options to release the unused memory to the operating system, so that's something which could be called after a full bake or alike. Otherwise, tcmalloc seems to be releasing memory gradually[1] (similar to what the memory manager of sun java does). Thanks for pointing that out, Jonas [1]: https://gperftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/tcmalloc.html#compiletime _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
