[vtkusers] Memory usage of VTK4 under Solaris

[KenLists]

I believe on the Sun the memory usage for an OpenGL program on the Sun
Creator 3D includes the memory mapped frame buffer. So top reports a
large usage of memory but most of it is just the memory mapping of the
frame buffer.

- Ken
 

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> From: vtkusers-admin at public.kitware.com [mailto:vtkusers-
> admin at public.kitware.com] On Behalf Of Elvis Chen
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
> Subject: [vtkusers] Memory usage of VTK4 under Solaris
> 
> 
> 
> greetings,
> 
> I have used VTK4/Qt3 under Solaris (SunOS 5.8) on Ultra 10 with
Creator
> 3D.  It is a low-end machine by today's standard but nonetheless it
> works just fine.  However, I have noticed that, even with a minimal
VTK
> program (polydatareader+mapper+actor+renderer+interactor), the memory
> usage is at minimal 250MB of ram as soon as renderer/interactor is
> used.  The amount of memory usage is reported by "top" command.
> 
> This occurs both in C++ and python.
> 
> Is this normal, or have I mis-configured vtk4 in any way?
> 
> thx,
> 
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