[Radiance-general] Re: Problem with avlmemi

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:49:54 -0700

Greg,

FYI - We got this error with binaries we compiled ourselves from the 3.4
source.  We use Suse 7.3 if that helps.  Thanks everyone for the insight into
this problem!  We have everything running correctly now.

~Zack

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> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:30:40 -0800
> From: Greg Ward <[email protected]>
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> Subject: [Radiance-general] Re: Problem with avlmemi
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> 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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> > Georg Mischler  --  simulations developer  --  schorsch at schorsch.com
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