[Flightgear-devel] Memory usage

2004-10-01 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, after reading a LWN article I started playing with the memory ovcercommit switch on a Linux box. Later I wondered why I wasn't unable to run FG reliably anymore and ran a 'top' to see what's going on here. I noticed that FG appears to lock huge amounts of memory - and the X server as well.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory usage

2004-10-01 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, after reading a LWN article I started playing with the memory ovcercommit switch on a Linux box. Later I wondered why I wasn't unable to run FG reliably anymore and ran a 'top' to see what's going on here. I noticed that FG appears to lock huge amounts of memory - and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory usage

2004-10-01 Thread Martin Spott
Boris Koenig wrote: If you want to hear a strong opinion about Flightgear's memory management, simply run the following: # valgrind fgfs Oh yeah: quickstep: 18:07:42 ~ valgrind /opt/FlightGear/bin/fgfs [... lots of stuff I probably might want to have a look at ] disInstr:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory usage

2004-10-01 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Is this by any chance related to the poor framerate that some of us have? Ampere On October 1, 2004 12:09 pm, Martin Spott wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: If you want to hear a strong opinion about Flightgear's memory management, simply run the following: # valgrind fgfs Oh yeah: