[Radiance-general] Re: Problem with avlmemi

[Greg Ward]

SIGH...

I wish to heaven they would fix the qsort() routine so it would stop 
haunting me...  How can something so basic and necessary remain broken 
for so many years??

I should really have put the -Dtracktime=0 switch into the makeall 
script for Linux, but since it shows up in a number of other places that 
use the GNU libraries, this probably wouldn't fix everyone's problem.  I 
thought the Linux folks had repaired it, to be honest.

It's true that modern VM systems are quite good when it comes to 
swapping, but also true that highly fragmented memory access is always a 
performance hit when you run out of RAM, so I'm reluctant just to remove 
the optimization altogether.  It does work on systems that don't use the 
GNU libraries....  At the very least, I should recompile the Linux 
binaries on the website.

Have people been getting this error with the compiled binaries, or just 
ones they compiled themselves from the 3.4 source?

-Greg

> 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?
>
>
> Thats one of the signs to tell if a mailing list is authoritative
> on a topic. It is, when questions can be answered by pointing to the
> archives: ;)
>
> http://www.radiance-online.org/pipermail/radiance-
> general/2001-July/000017.html
>
>
> Have fun!
>
> -schorsch
>
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