Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-24 Thread Kay C Lan
As there has been talk of 'thorough testing' and in light of the recent posts trying to steer this thread into a different direction I thought I'd share my own recent tests. Not really Rev related, but as I'm sure everyone here does regular and thorough backups this may be of interest to one or tw

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Jerry J
From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Sounds like a good excuse to write a "filter" application - in RunRev of course! I don't think that Stephen receives the list via digest though. I do read the list as a digest. I would have expressed my annoyance if Stephen hadn't beaten me to it. Jerr

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Chipp Walters
This is a test. I'm sure it's imperative Dave 'get in' the last word. So, let's see. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.r

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Dave
Hi, Sounds like a good excuse to write a "filter" application - in RunRev of course! I don't think that Stephen receives the list via digest though. All the Best Dave On 23 Mar 2007, at 17:42, Bill wrote: Hi I found out from a complaint about one of my posts that some of the readers of

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Bill
Hi I found out from a complaint about one of my posts that some of the readers of this list get it in digest form instead of individual emails and it is difficult for them to ignore posts by headings (they have to scroll through them). So that might be why they're complaining. After I got the comp

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Dave
Hi, I really don't understand why you get so upset, if you don't like the subject just don't read it. There are loads of topics on this list I don't read them all. Most of them in fact stay unread. All the Best Dave On 23 Mar 2007, at 16:21, Stephen Barncard wrote: We're only having a bi

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Stephen Barncard
We're only having a bit of fun! fun for you, obviously. Annoying for most of us. None of it is meant with any real venom well not on my part anyway and I'd be shocked if Richard felt differently! Take Care and Have a Great Weekend! All the Best Dave -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Dave
We're only having a bit of fun! None of it is meant with any real venom well not on my part anyway and I'd be shocked if Richard felt differently! Take Care and Have a Great Weekend! All the Best Dave On 23 Mar 2007, at 15:11, Heather Nagey wrote: :) ok Guys... you heard the man...

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Dave
Hi, Here is the original script: on doExport local tNum local twID local tFol local tDest local myImageData put text of fld "number" into tNum put the windowID of this stack into twID put text of fld "export folder" into tFol if there is not a folder tFol then answer "Expo

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Dave
On 23 Mar 2007, at 15:00, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave persisted: On 22 Mar 2007, at 18:29, Richard Gaskin wrote: In the ten years I've been working with this engine this is the first verified leak I've seen. Let's be generous and say that maybe one or two others might have been discovere

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dave wrote: Took me 10 minutes to build the test for the export snapshot command and 2 minutes to run it. And, as it turns out, we were all wrong. There is a leak, and they will fix it, but the reason there is a leak makes perfect sense. The bug I posted about this problem only a day or two

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Heather Nagey
:) ok Guys... you heard the man... I think you've both made your point/s, as thoroughly as is reasonably possible. Its been an interesting discussion. Let this be the last data point, please. Shake hands and agree to differ amicably. Warm Regards, Heather Heather Nagey Customer Servi

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave persisted: On 22 Mar 2007, at 18:29, Richard Gaskin wrote: In the ten years I've been working with this engine this is the first verified leak I've seen. Let's be generous and say that maybe one or two others might have been discovered in that time. Even then, over a decade that's re

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Stephen Barncard
ARRGHHH!!! MAKE IT STOP, PLEASE! Dave continued: However stress testing is not an accomplishment at all it's really easy, that's why I really can't see why you are going on about it, I do it without even thinking about it! In fact I was absolutely gobsmacked that you were

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-23 Thread Dave
On 22 Mar 2007, at 18:29, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave continued: I suppose my point is that in order to have a beta test, you need to have gone thru the steps to get there. It's no good producing mountains of code, doing little or no testing at the development phase and then throwing t

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, I typically hate to post 'me too' posts, but I have to agree with your most thorough analysis of this problem. While I haven't used the engine yet for 10 years, I have logged quite a number of hours and commercial project releases with it. I've never had a problem with memory leaks. I be

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave continued: I suppose my point is that in order to have a beta test, you need to have gone thru the steps to get there. It's no good producing mountains of code, doing little or no testing at the development phase and then throwing that out for beta. With 20/20 hindsight it's easy to

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-22 Thread Dave
On 21 Mar 2007, at 18:29, Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 21 Mar 2007, at 18:47, Dave wrote: On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:17, Björnke von Gierke wrote: ... Actually we started the discussion at cross purposes I think. I was talking about first level soak (stress) testing in the development proc

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-21 Thread Luis
That implies that the release of the purchased versions of RunRev were betas... Cheers, Luis. On 21 Mar 2007, at 16:01, Dave wrote: On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:28, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: If I were selling a product like RunRev and I did not have the resources to test it on all t

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-21 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 21 Mar 2007, at 18:47, Dave wrote: On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:17, Björnke von Gierke wrote: ... Actually we started the discussion at cross purposes I think. I was talking about first level soak (stress) testing in the development process before the code is checked in, before it goes to QA a

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-21 Thread Dave
On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:17, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Ok, if they don't have enough money to pay me now, then they can owe it to me, and, *if* and when they do make lots of money they can pay me then. How does that sound? I would charge £15.00 per hour, that's a lot cheaper than they are a

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-21 Thread Dave
On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:28, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: If I were selling a product like RunRev and I did not have the resources to test it on all the Platforms it shipped on, then I would say that in all my advertising and on my web site etc. etc. etc. What I wouldn't do is to not

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: If I were selling a product like RunRev and I did not have the resources to test it on all the Platforms it shipped on, then I would say that in all my advertising and on my web site etc. etc. etc. What I wouldn't do is to not say a word anywhere and continue to advertise like

Re: having to help Rev (was: Re: Memory Leak on export png????)

2007-03-21 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 21 Mar 2007, at 15:38, Dave wrote: On 20 Mar 2007, at 20:44, Stephen Barncard wrote: Dave wrote: RunRev can help by having Beta cycles whose length is more in keeping with industry norms, but the actual testing can't be done by them; there are just too many possibilities. I'd be happy

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-21 Thread Dave
On 20 Mar 2007, at 20:44, Stephen Barncard wrote: Dave wrote: Where does it say this in their product advertising? I must have missed that bit. you know very well they wouldn't say that, neither would you. Not sure what you mean here, but I thought it important to to make this cryst

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Smith
On my machine it's showing Real:30-40 MB VM:200-300 MB. It doesn't seem to change from beginning to end of the 1000 iterations...however many times I run it. Rev 2.8.0, Mac 10.4.8, 1.5 Mhz G4 PB with 768 MB RAM. Standard Rev Studio installation with a few plugins loaded. Mysterious. Mar

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Dave, Yeah, I'm with Stephen about your *attitude*. But, here's what I would suggest you trying: Insert a wait 1 second with messages into your loop. See if you're just not giving Rev enough time to garbage collect. If it stops leaking, then you can adjust the time to wait. Don't forget the "

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dave wrote: Where does it say this in their product advertising? I must have missed that bit. you know very well they wouldn't say that, neither would you. RunRev can help by having Beta cycles whose length is more in keeping with industry norms, but the actual testing can't be done by

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Dave
Hi, I have got it working so I don't get the file name problem (giving an error at file N) but it still leaks like there is no tomorrow. I have tried doing the "x = " trick as well as well as taking out the counter field altogether and it still leaks. I can't get it to work beyond 2000 i

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Smith
Dave, as I said, it's now working as you would hope, and I can't reproduce the problem. Just out of interest, in view of what was happening here before, have you tried putting "x=" & x into fld "counter", rather than just x? Best, Mark On 20 Mar 2007, at 16:05, Dave wrote: This is the ki

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Dave
Hi, This is the kind of thing I was experiencing. I think there may be two related problems, although one may cause the other. When I tested it, it would run up to file 288 and not write file 289. I then started it at file 289 and it would go wrong on the first file. e.g. change your loop

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Dave
On 20 Mar 2007, at 15:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: All I know is that if I were to write something like this (a file/ image data exporter) then once I'd got it working past the the point where I could write an image file in all the different formats then I'd run a soak test on

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: All I know is that if I were to write something like this (a file/ image data exporter) then once I'd got it working past the the point where I could write an image file in all the different formats then I'd run a soak test on it and let it run for *loads* of (like 10,000 +) of i

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Smith
on mouseUp set the directory to "/Users/marksmith/Desktop/xpics/" repeat with x = 1 to 1000 if the mouse is down then exit to top end if put x & ".png" into tDest set the backgroundColor of grp "counter" to any item of "red,blue" set the backgroundColor of fld "count

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Dave
On 20 Mar 2007, at 14:14, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: Yet more information, I tried running it under 2.6.6.152 (using the older screen rectangle command syntax) and I got it to export 2000 image files. It ran a *lot* slower but it didn't leak memory, so the problem must have been

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: Yet more information, I tried running it under 2.6.6.152 (using the older screen rectangle command syntax) and I got it to export 2000 image files. It ran a *lot* slower but it didn't leak memory, so the problem must have been introduced in version 2.7.x. FWIW, last night I exp

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-20 Thread Dave
Yet more information, I tried running it under 2.6.6.152 (using the older screen rectangle command syntax) and I got it to export 2000 image files. It ran a *lot* slower but it didn't leak memory, so the problem must have been introduced in version 2.7.x. I can't see that this could have be

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Some more information: I built a standalone, this writes 288 files but I don't get the error dialog and it doesn't complete correctly, e.g. I don't get the "Done!" dialog at the end. Looking at the System Activity Monitor it only grabs around 35 MB of real memory 377 MB of virtual -

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: Some more information on this. If I delete the Text counter object from the group that gets exported the it will output many more images (once it actually did all 500) before stopping. Doing this it will just continue forever,

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Mar 2007, at 15:14, Ian Wood wrote: On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Is that physical memory or virtual? On OS X I've seen seemingly small apps take up a surprising amount of virtual memory, but operate in a much smaller physical space. Although FWIW I've not seen m

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Wood
On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Is that physical memory or virtual? On OS X I've seen seemingly small apps take up a surprising amount of virtual memory, but operate in a much smaller physical space. Although FWIW I've not seen my Rev usage climb that high while running t

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: Some more information on this. If I delete the Text counter object from the group that gets exported the it will output many more images (once it actually did all 500) before stopping. Doing this it will just continue forever, e.g. Most of the time I don't get the error dialog

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Some more information on this. If I delete the Text counter object from the group that gets exported the it will output many more images (once it actually did all 500) before stopping. Doing this it will just continue forever, e.g. Most of the time I don't get the error dialog and mous

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Mac OS X 10.4.8, MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM Ok, are you using the standard RunRev IDE and not running anything other that the standard RunRev stuff? I set the fill color via the Property Inspector, not via a script, not sure if that would make a difference. I have removed

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: What suggests this crash is specifically a memory leak? Just a guess really, I have had this kind of problem when my external commands (not being used in this test) had a memory leak and the performance went right down and RunRev acted in a similar way. Not really sure if it

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Dave
On 16 Mar 2007, at 18:13, Jim Ault wrote: On 3/16/07 10:25 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. I also tried this without setting the bac

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Dave
On 16 Mar 2007, at 18:02, Ian Wood wrote: On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:25, Dave wrote: Hi All, Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. Oops. What I *hadn't* said about the stack i

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Dave
On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:59, Richard Gaskin wrote: I simplified the script to make it easier to set up here, and since you're using v2.8 I removed the portion for earlier versions: on mouseUp local tNum local twID local tFol local tDest put 500 into tNum put the windowID of this

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/16/07 10:25 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation > of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from > Rev Online. > I also tried this without setting the background color and this does > write all 5

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Wood
On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:25, Dave wrote: Hi All, Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. Oops. What I *hadn't* said about the stack is that it was put together as part of a bug

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. I have changed in to use .png files instead of JPEG file, changed the counter rectangle graphic object to have an all green ba