[WMCoolmon]

Okay, it looks as if fs2_open has a serious memory leak problem; generally, I can get away with 3 missions before I CTD.

Info I've gathered, posted all this in Bobb's latest thread:

I tried another memory tracker (mmreg) and it found nothing wrong.

There aren't any memory leaks after Freespace 2 closes, but there ARE big increases in the memory it takes up while it's running

I opened FS2 (debug) in windowed mode, along with the Win2k task manager. Loaded the mission, exited, loaded it again.

What happened with memory usage was that after I closed the mission, it remained the same. When I started the mission, it would go back down (partially, IIRC) to what it was before, then just before it finished loading it would spike back up to about 100 MB more than before.

Does anyone have any additional info/ideas? It's not environment mapping or any of Bobb's recent changes, since people were reporting this right after 3.6 came out.

[SA22C]

I'm not sure what's going on, but I only get two missions before my computer runs out of memory.

[Taristin]

Mine'll die after about 20 minutes... Low ram and all.

[kasperl]

Sound preloading in uncompressed formats?

Dunno, my system is too unstable for serious testing, I'm afraid.

Does it leak the same with retail data?

I'm going on a fishing expidition with ideas here, but someone might get a lightbulb over his head if we brainstorm enough.

[Tepa]

seems like 07072004 gots big leaks too
havent my self got it thx to 1gig ram+w2k
but friends do get em on XP "run outta virtual memory" crash on to desktop after 2-5mins of playing
earlier 3.6build was much better faster loadin and less crashy,
now gotta wait on mission load ages and while that u get timed out or some else gets it

[Setekh]

Welcome to HLP, Tepa

[wolfdog]

I don't have that problem....
using win2k wih 1gig of ram

[Jetmech Jr.]

I never get memory problems, except with certain campaigns like Casualties of War.

[wojta]

I have tried 3.6 from CVS 8.6 and one got yesterday. The first build crashes after 2-5 missions played. The newer ones builds crash mostly earlier. I'm getting Out of memory error and it seems that it takes over 1GB of memory.

[Kazan]

someone introduced huge memory consumption a long while ago.. any we never traced it down - i need to find a program that will give me a per-module lineup of what's using memory

[Kosh]

Here are my figures when I played the mission "Nekhbet":

Using physical: 192 meg
Using pagefile: 306 meg
Using virtual: 560 meg

physical free: 7/382 meg
pagefile free: 445/921 meg
virtual free: 1410/2047 meg


Explosions and flak really slow it down the most. I am using a modified 3.6 build Taylor gave me. He fixed some of the memory leaks, and so it is better now than it was. But it still uses a ton.

[Moonsword]

You've probably thought of this, Kazan, but try SourceForge.  They might have something you can use.

All I can add, sorry.

[Arc]

Originally posted by Kazan
i need to find a program that will give me a per-module lineup of what's using memory

Would this be of any use? http://valgrind.kde.org/index.html It is GPL software, but it's Linux based. Maybe taylor or someone could run it?

I mention it cos of one of the tools:

Massif is a heap profiler. It performs detailed heap profiling by taking regular snapshots of a program's heap. It produces a graph showing heap usage over time, including information about which parts of the program are responsible for the most memory allocations. The graph is supplemented by a text or HTML file that includes more information for determining where the most memory is being allocated. Massif runs programs about 20x slower than normal.

[Starman01]

No Idea about coding, but I had the most problems with
texture-load. By mission-loading, and sometimes in-mission (when ships
jump in). Also a big problem are wrong loaded background-files,
because facing them drops the Framerate in the cellar.

Restarting solves that issue in the most cases.

[Kazan]

i'm setting something up

[WMCoolmon]

More possibly-related info: I've been crashing when Wavedata_load_buffer is freed, specifically on the line

Code: [Select]

int actual_size = HeapSize(Heap, HEAP_FLAG, ptr);

It DOES seem to be allocated somewhere, too.

[Tepa]

odd i dont get any framerate issues but now i ran outta 1gig ram
after 3 games missiles went retarded and restart for comp took ages when cleaning ram..
note that was on multiplay.

[Hippo]

I don't get any problems with memory... I've only got 320 Mb SD, though i've set aside 2048Mb Virtual...

[Tepa]

then it seems like multiplay uses hell memory.
1gig phys+512virtual and when it goes on virtual
thats when ppl start cry about bad weapons even host gets em

[vyper]

It all slows down the longer I play, and eventually after about three missions (insanely long missions from my archived version of maelstrom I'll admit) it crashes out with an out of memory error.

Boo.