[Radiance-general] Problem with avlmemi

[Roland Schregle]

Jan Wienold wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> we installed the 3.4 RADIANCE and get now in many cases following error message:
> 
> rpict: consistency - address not found in avlmemi
> 
> We also tried to store an ambient file and to restart the job with it - with the same result.
> 
> If we use our "older" version (I think it is 3.1 patchlevel 11), this problem does not occur.
> 
> Any idea how to solve that?


Howdy Jan -- long time no see! :^)

Oh yeah... the age-old avlmemi bug... the plight of any RADIANCE
developer! This problem popped up on patchlevel 20. I circumvented it by
simply disabling the call to sortambvals() at line #230 in the ambient.c
module:

#if 0        
   if (tracktime)                          /* sort to minimize thrashing
*/             sortambvals(0);
#endif
   
Runs fine without it! Maybe Greg can shed some light on why
sortambvals() is needed. As far as I can see this should be redundant on
modern VM systems.

See ya!


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