[PD] msgfile massive memory usage

[Ed Kelly]

PS I was using 'top' in Linux to report the memory usage....

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    On Friday, 25 October 2019, 12:59:16 GMT+1, Ed Kelly via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:  
 
 Hi list,
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.
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.
Ed
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

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