[kepler-dev] [Bug 3106] - Out of memory while opening all demos, is -Xss5m or SVG the problem?

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3106


cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|P2                          |P4
   Target Milestone|1.0.0rc1                    |Post-rel-1.0.0




------- Comment #2 from cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2008-01-29 16:59 -------
I did an experiment under Windows with Java 1.5.0_14 where I changed
-Xmx and -Xss and then used the about: facility to display all the ptolemy
demos.

Below is the output

-Xmx   -Xss       Windows Mem   Windows Peak Mem      # of Windows before
                                                      running out of memory
512m    5m           362M        365M                 36
512m   10m           352M        380M                 22
512m    3m           551M        551M                 56
1024m   3m           387M        387M                 45
1024m   2m           524M        527M                 53
1024m   1m           811M        811M                 80 (test completed)
1024m  not set       807M        808M                 80 (test completed)

Note that not all the memory is getting used when we specify -Xss of 2m or
greater.

Note also that there is some sort of non-linear relationship between
-Xmx and -Xss.  We get more windows with -Xmx512m -Xss3m than we do
with -Xmx1024m and -Xss3m.

What I think is happening is that this test opens a bunch of models
quickly.  -Xss sets the stack size per thread.  Each of the models is
probably invoking a number of threads to get images etc. 
Thus we are running out of memory.

It could be that this test is somewhat artificial, so I'm downgrading this
bug in priority and moving the milestone.

If people complain about running out of memory, and they are not using
the ENM actors, then they can change -Xss.  I think setting -Xss to 5m
might be a little high, but let's wait and see if there are complaints
before changing it.