[Kst] kdeextragear-2/kst/kst/datasources/cdf

[George Staikos]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 04:58, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 23:21, George Staikos wrote:
> > fix uninitialized variable
>
> Could that be linked with the _major_ memory allocation problem I met
> yesterday when trying to load a test-case document with cdf data (the one
> George has) ?

  Actually yes, it could very well be.  You can easily apply that patch 
locally and give it a try if you're not running from CVS.

> My PC froze in the middle of the operation (the only way out being a hard
> reset :-(). Investigating a bit further, it turns out that at some point,
> kst starts allocating memory at a crazy pace. While the first variables
> read slowly increase memory consumption, when reaching a particular
> variable things turn bad and I only have a couple of seconds left to kill
> kst before my machine is locked, out of RAM (384 MB + 800 MB swap, of which
> 900 are free at the beginning !).
> Interestingly, the same file loads without problem on my Sun station here,
> and memory usage is normal.

   That definitely sounds like uninit memory behaviour.  Some places it will 
be 0 by default, others it will not.

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