On 16.04.2011 21:16, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > If I'm not mistaken the particles issue has been around since we got > particles, so it is apparently not that bad (leak and race > condition) in practice. Ok, thanks! I've create a bug issue as a reminder, in case someone else noticed the issue some day. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=305
>> Not sure, but I guess the issues with "Effect" objects is probably worse >> than with particles. There's a larger number of Effect objects - and >> each is connected to a texture (.rgb/.png images) - which may occupy a >> lot of memory. Just by starting at KSFO, loads of KSFO terminal textures >> - and textures of 15 different MP aircraft immediately stick in memory... > Yes, the big textures will eat memory fast. Particle systems usually use > small textures (the effect of the accumulation of particle system updaters > is noticeable with wildfire, though - but you'd need a lot of MP aircraft > passing through to generate anywhere near those numbers of particle > systems). The effect/texture "mystery" is also solved - alas - explained. There is a global cache in simgear/makeEffect.cxx (effectMap), and it has no condition to ever drop anything. So, created effects always stay in memory until shutdown - hence also their textures. If that's used for scenery/MP aircraft a lot, it _might_ accumulate a lot of memory. Tim might know more about this :). cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
