I'm not sure about this, I tried 100ms, and 500ms and neither helped.
It only took longer for the memory to add up since there are fewer
setRange calls in the same amount of time. It would be interesting
to see if the leak goes away with an earlier version java3d.
TomR
Don Murray wrote:
> One more noted on this issue. If I put a sleep of 100 ms in
> after the setRange(), I don't get the memory problem showing up.
> With 10 ms sleep, the problem persists. To me, the interesting
> thing is how fast the memory useage creeps up.
>
> Don
>
> John J Brecht wrote:
>
> > after reading this:
> > http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/java3dfaq-1.3.html#memory
> > and very briefly skimming through this link that it points to:
> > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ALT/RefObj/index.html
> >
> >
> > I did a quick experiment and added these two lines:
> >
> > xmap = null;
> > xmap = new ScalarMap( RealType.Time, Display.XAxis );
> >
> > just before the line:
> >
> > xmap.setRange(then, now);
> >
> > and it looks like the memory problem goes away. Chances are that Java3D
> > (especially with VisAD on top of it) is chock full of these "weak" and
> > "phantom" references mentioned in the article. I didn't read enough of
> > the article to understand how to properly use the Reference API, but I
> > imagine building that into VisAD might be the proper solution to this
> > problem. Meanwhile, trying setting anything to null that you can!
> >
> > -john
> >
> > Tom Whittaker wrote:
> >
> >> Doug:
> >>
> >> I echo Don's comments "that's some leak". What's interesting is that
> >> if the display (in Don's modified code) is covered up by another
> >> window, the memory starts increasing again (on Windoz). It also
> >> exhibits some interesting behaivor whilst minimized. (I'm using the
> >> -verbose:gc option to watch the GC run.)
> >>
> >> Also, periodically, I get this exception:
> >>
> >> java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.media.j3d.GeometryAtom
> >> at
> >> javax.media.j3d.TransformGroupRetained.setTransform(TransformGroupRet
> >> ained.java:161)
> >> at
> >> javax.media.j3d.TransformGroup.setTransform(TransformGroup.java:111)
> >> at
> >> visad.java3d.DisplayRendererJ3D.setTransform3D(DisplayRendererJ3D.jav
> >> a:1255)
> >> at
> >> visad.java3d.ProjectionControlJ3D.setMatrix(ProjectionControlJ3D.java
> >> :102)
> >> at
> >> visad.java3d.DisplayRendererJ3D.setWaitFlag(DisplayRendererJ3D.java:1
> >> 377)
> >> at visad.DisplayImpl.doAction(DisplayImpl.java:1411)
> >> at visad.ActionImpl.run(ActionImpl.java:303)
> >> at visad.util.ThreadPool$ThreadMinnow.run(ThreadPool.java:95)
> >>
> >> No help (sorry), just observations...
> >>
> >> tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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