[vtkusers] Re: Memory loss under dual-cpu/Win2000/OpenGL

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 05/11/2000 22:15, Lisa Sobierajski Avila wrote:
>Hi Nigel,
>
>I have a similar problem under Windows 2000 which I was blaming on my 
>video driver, but maybe it is the fact that my machine has two processors, 
>who knows? VolView takes about 350MB just to start (no data loaded) where 
>it takes under 30 on a Windows NT system with the same video card. I have 
>not looked carefully at whether VTK causes leaks, but everything seems to 
>(even when I am not running VTK the memory size grows until I need to reboot)

Hi Lisa, Nigel

>>To check if you get the same problem, open the Windows Task
>>Manager and see whether the number for "Total" rises by 4MB
>>after any OpenGL app exits (e.g. running Vtk TCL scripts)

I ran 10 different VTK tcl scripts, one after the other, and there were no 
leaks on my *single* processor (Athlon 800) Windows 2000 Pro SP1 platform.

But I'm confused about the way w2k seems to handle memory. Or maybe is 
there another *big* leak in my set of softwares, as w2k seems to be more 
greedy than NT4.