[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/render/intern/source pipeline.c

[wim van hoydonck]

That is a (documented) bug in SDL, see here:

http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_5fCreateThread


On 1/28/06, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> ton (Ton Roosendaal) 2006/01/28 11:30:17 CET
>
>   Modified files:        (Branch: orange)
>     blender/source/blender/render/intern/source pipeline.c
>
>   Log:
>   Orange: fix for threaded rendering. Discovered that for some reason the
>   threads didn't seem to free allocated memory... while rendering an long
>   sequence, the 'virtual memory' size grew with about 20 meg per frame.
>   This appeared to be not related to using malloc in threads (works
>   properly), but just because threads were not closed properly.
>
>   I assumed that the call to SDL_CreateThread() also closes the thread
>   when finished... but that seems to be not the case. By using a call to
>   SDL_WaitThread() after the thread was finished the memory heap is stable
>   again.
>
>   This is something I've seen not documented anywhere... the SDL man
>   pages are horrible sparse; Take for example the official page:
>
>   http://manuals.thexdershome.com/SDL-1.2.5/html/sdlcreatethread.html
>
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.1.2.8   +18 -10    blender/source/blender/render/intern/source/Attic/pipeline.c
>     <http://projects.blender.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/blender/source/blender/render/intern/source/Attic/pipeline.c.diff?r1=1.1.2.7&r2=1.1.2.8&cvsroot=bf-blender>
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