Re: [Indigosim-developer] Re: runtime heads up

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking.  We should go through the step
functions and find out where we are calling new.  We should find out
which simulation this occured on.

-Max

Quoting Reuben Grinberg <reu...@ay...>:

> Garbage collection happens automatically. The only time you really 
> 
> want to call the garbage collector yourself is if you just freed up 
> 
> an enormous amount of space and then need to allocate more space  
> afterwards:
> 
> int[] numbers = new int[ 10e20];
> .
> .
> .
> 
> numbers = null;
> System.gc();
> 
> doube[] moreNumbers = new double[10e20];
> 
> Otherwise, things should be fine. Is there a place, Max, perhaps  
> where you are making a a new data structure where a new can be used? 
> 
> Why would the memory requirements go up after each time step?
> 
> -Reuben
> --
> Reuben Grinberg
> reu...@ay...
> (609)233-9891
> 
> "And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very 
> 
> very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding 
> 
> word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good 
> 
> name - ground!
> I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
> -The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
> 
> 
> On Aug 3, 2005, at 8:45 PM, max...@ya... wrote:
> 
> > Agreed.  After a certain point, there is just nothing more to see
> in
> > these simmulations.  That being said, do you think that garbage
> > collecting every, say 500 steps, would help for future
> simulations?
> >
> > -Max
> >
> > Quoting Reuben Grinberg <reu...@ay...>:
> >
> >
> >> Hey Peter,
> >>
> >> I'm thinking that it is just a matter of capping the run time.
> >>
> >> -Reuben
> >> --
> >> Reuben Grinberg
> >> reu...@ay...
> >> (609)233-9891
> >>
> >>      "Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing
> something
> >>
> >> important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
> >>      'Is there any tea on this spaceship?' he asked."
> >>
> >>      He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him
> with a
> >>
> >> plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite,
> >> entirely unlike tea.
> >> -- The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 3, 2005, at 6:10 PM, pc...@MI... wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hey,
> >>>
> >>> Do any of you have any ideas as to why this is happening?  Is
> it
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> just because
> >>> the simulation was left running for so long that it got too big
> and
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> took over
> >>> all the memory?  Is this just a matter of putting a cap on how
> long
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> the
> >>> tutorials can run?  Do some tutorials grow in size much more
> >>> rapidly than
> >>> others?
> >>>
> >>> When I mentioned on Sunday that the Society window was getting
> >>> relocated all the
> >>> time, it actually isn't, it is only relocated and reset in size
> for
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> a call to
> >>> play.
> >>>
> >>> I'll see if I can recreate the same problem.
> >>>
> >>> -Peter
> >>>
> >>> Quoting "Marshall W. Van Alstyne" <mar...@MI...>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hey guys, I was running tutorials for Cisco today when I
> >>>> inadvertently left some running during the call.  My machine
> >>>> ground to a total halt. It didn't hang in the usual sense but
> it
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> started paging like crazy, ran the disk constantly, and
> accepted
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> almost no input from the keyboard.  It got unbelievably slow.
> I'm
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> using the version on my machine loaded from last Fri.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you pls check it for runtime memory consumption, disk
> usage,
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> or other faults that could lead to this behavior?
> >>>>
> >>>> Cisco didn't seem to have experienced this behavior yet but
> I'd
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> like to head it off before they do, if possible.  Otherwise,
> the
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> breadth and quality of the demos went quite well.  They should
> get
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> us feedback soon.
> >>>>
> >>>> MVA
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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