[PD] Re: [GEM-dev] GEM: pix_image reloading image already loaded

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Thu Oct 28 11:14:15 CEST 2004


Hey there,

I reported this memory leak problem on Linux about a year or two ago.

Add considering I have an installation that uses pix_image under linux up
for 250 days without a reboot. I suppose this could be a new problem that
was resolved under linux some time ago. I remember Johannes replied to my
report, but I can't remember anything else about what happened, Only
Etienne reminded me!

Ben


> Hi
>
> We will look into those problems.  Thanks for the report.
>
> For another approach, try loading images with pix_movie/film and just
> re-trigger the first frame over and over.  Also, consider making the
> multiple image sequences into a single moving using QTPro or similar
> application and stepping through the frames.  This method is probably
> the fastest way to get images to the screen and also will allow for
> mixing images and movies using the various pix_ objects.
>
> cgc
>
> On Oct 27, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Etienne Desautels wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I did for an interactive video installation a pd-GEM patch, a kind of
>> video sequencer. I'm on mac os 10.3.5 with pd 0.37 and GEM 0.90. I use
>> pix_image to load images on a rectangle and I have 2 problems with it.
>>
>> First, pix_image have a system to keep each loaded image in the
>> computer memory for using it later if you reload the _exact_ same
>> image. But if you load a lot, say hundreds, of images, that will use a
>> lot of memory. I'd like to know if there's a way to avoid this, a way
>> to release this memory ?
>>
>> Secondly, I think there's a bug in pix_image (and pix_multiimage
>> also). It's suppose to use the data image in the cache if you reload
>> the _exact_ same image, but it doesn't seem to work. That make my
>> first problem even worst because each time you reload the same image,
>> gem will put it another time in memory, so the memory will grow
>> indefinitely. I did the test with pix_image and pix_multiimage and on
>> 2 different computers (powerbook 667 with an ATI and a dual G4 1GHz
>> with an nVidia). Each time I reload the same image, I can see the
>> memory usage of pd growing. The only way to release the memory is to
>> quit pd. It's not an acceptable solution for me because my
>> installation is running all day long and at some point PD hang because
>> there's no more memory and swap.
>>
>> You could try it by using the help patch of pix_image and keep
>> reloading the same image and watching the memory usage of pd in top.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Etienne
>>
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