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On Friday, 25 October 2019, 12:59:16 GMT+1, Ed Kelly via Pd-list <pd-list@lists.iem.at> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv7400749396"><div><div class="yiv7400749396ydp314e0fb1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi list,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Can
anyone (especially IOhannes) explain this to me - when I attempt to
load a file of 2.8Mb in size into msgfile, Pd reports memory usage going
up to 9+ Gb? It seems rather a lot. The files are storage of grain
windows, each of which is 4096 points in size. With 74 of them it's 9Gb.<br></div><div dir="ltr">When
I use a patch to generate the windows I store them in the msgfile
object, and with over 130 of them there is only about 370Mb of reserved
memory.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Ed</div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">PS I tried to send the offending text file before but it was too big for the 2000K limit of Pd messages - you can view / download it at http://sharktracks.co.uk/puredata/newGrainWindows.win<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="yiv7400749396ydp314e0fb1signature">_-_-_-_-_-_-_-^-_-_-_-_-_-_-_<br><br>For <b>Lone Shark </b>releases, <b>Pure Data </b>software and published <b>Research</b>, go to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sharktracks.co.uk">http://sharktracks.co.uk</a> </div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br><a ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br></div>
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