On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 16:44 +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote > > > > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 20:18, Vivian Meazza wrote: > > > Lee > > > > > > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > > > * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: > > > > > > Is anyone else seeing a memory leak in current cvs? > > > > > > > > > > I would be surprised if we had no leaks at all. But in a > > > > > short test with $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --airport=kufo ... > > > > > i didn't see anything like you observed. The memory > > > > > consumption was quite stable after a few minutes. (This > > > > > was with ATC turned off.) > > > > > > > > > > m. > > > > > > > > Tried fgfs --aircraft=ufo --airport=kufo and had no > > > > problems. Went back to the a/c I was testing and just let it > > > > sit there while doing nothing but reduce the sound volume - > > > > no problem. > > > > > > > > I then closed the canopy (nasal), which resulted in a slight > > > > increase of fgfs vm utilisation but after waiting for a > > > > minute or two it was stable. I then revealed the 2D panel > > > > and that's when the vm utilisation for fgfs started to ramp > > > > up (I ssh'd in from another m/c and ran top to watch this). > > > > > > > > I switched back to the ufo and when I revealed the 2D panel > > > > (C-172 default) fgfs vm utilisation seemed to start ramping, > > > > although a lot more slowly than the a/c I was testing, so it > > > > looks as though it may be something to do with the 2D panel, > > > > which is a bit strange. > > > > > > > > As I said, the rate seems quite a bit lower with the ufo - I > > > > had to wait about a minute or so before it was apparent that > > > > fgfs's vm utilisation was ramping and it was only grabbing > > > > an extra mb every 30 seconds or so. > > > > > > > > Do you see this? > > > > > > I just left the KC135 running airborne - it chewed up VM and > > > finally froze. 2D panel as well. I'm not clear if this is the > > > same phenomenon that you are seeing, or if the 2D panel is > > > significant. > > > > > > Vivian > > > > Sounds very much like it - I first noticed under the same > > conditions. > > > > I'll try cvs with Melchior's latest update, but a bit later - I'm > > of to a birthday now. > > > > I have now completed a bit more testing using the Seahawk using cvs-head of > this am on Windows XP. With the 3D panel there is no memory leak. When I > switch to the 2d panel on the fly, the memory leak starts. When I switch > back to 3d, the leak stops. > > This can be repeated at will. > > Vivian >
I can confirm the same thing on AMD64 running Linux (2.6.15 kernel). However, I would need to wait a while to consume the VM on this machine before it crashes due to lack of memory (w/ 2gig of swap). George _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
