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Topic: p5 memory usage (Read 691 times) |
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benelek
 
 
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p5 memory usage
« on: Jan 24th, 2003, 2:46pm » |
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after ive been running p5 for a while, opening different sketches, etc, i seem to be regularly running out of memory. right now, p5 is using 48meg of RAM, and i dont have a sketch running. are u guys aware of this?
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fry
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #1 on: Jan 24th, 2003, 3:01pm » |
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oh, that sucks.. i wasn't aware of that. what platform/os version are you running on?
are other folks seeing the same thing?
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benelek
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #2 on: Jan 24th, 2003, 3:21pm » |
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pentium4, with 256meg RAM, and win2k with the latest SR's.
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| « Last Edit: Jan 24th, 2003, 3:21pm by benelek » |
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Glen Murphy
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #3 on: Jan 24th, 2003, 11:15pm » |
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I got P5 up to 83mB of RAM the other day, but that was after a few hours of building things that had thousands of arrays (and they all kept crashing, running out of memory until I toned down the array sizes a little).
P3M, 512mB.
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fry
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #4 on: Jan 26th, 2003, 10:24pm » |
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hm, it's tough to say what to expect. java can be a total memory hog. although, if memory keeps creeping up in use even with nothing open, that sounds like a bug.
i'll add it to the list.
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pollux
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #5 on: Mar 18th, 2003, 5:24am » |
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a week ago, i had a major HD crash just after closing P5. it gave me the feared blue screen with a top left message, something containing ERROR and MEMORY DUMPING. after that i culd not neither start my OS up, nor repair it, nor reinstall it, until i format the disk. it seems some of my boot clusters were damaged. now i have a funny partition D: wich won't even open and amounts to 0Kb in size. i have 128Mb Ram, with 384 on VM. DELL PC, WIN2000, P5 0051.
usually, P5 gets quite slow after a while working with it, and sometimes it stops for a moment, while my HD starts working heavily...
i can imagine it has anything to do with the software, or at least be a general problem, but wanted to publish it just in case.
could it be a general problem with the VM writing to the disk, or is it a P5 issue?
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pollux | www.frwrd.net
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benelek
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #6 on: Mar 18th, 2003, 12:49pm » |
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i just tried something in an attempt at speeding up P5, and i need some others to try it to see if i'm playing tricks with myself or not.
i moved all of my sketches (from the "default" folder in sketchbook) into a temp folder, and then started Processing. i then closed P5, moved the files back and restarted P5. it seems to me that P5 is now starting up much faster than before, but as i said - i may just be playing tricks with myself.
let me know if it does or doesn't have an effect.
-jacob
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skloopy
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #7 on: Mar 21st, 2003, 10:12am » |
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On OS9 Sometimes I have to quit Processing after an edit or it gives me an out of memory error. The sketch that i'm running is pretty intensive though, running calculations on a 360x1400 pixel image.
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pollux
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Re: p5 memory usage
« Reply #8 on: Apr 25th, 2003, 10:34pm » |
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has somebody found a workaround for the memory (over)stuffing? personally, i don't do heavy memory/processor intensive work, and sometimes P5 grabs up to 90Mb of memory out of my humble 128Mb + VM (though i usually play the same applet like a thousand times, for checking)
oh... hmm... i know... going to the store, buying more RAM... ..
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pollux | www.frwrd.net
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