hi i have an installation with a number of PIII machines, where some picture manipulation (2D) is done, working nicely on Win-XP and Flash 8 (in 256 Mb).
now i'm trying to change from Flash to GEM. the patch i made works perfect on a P4.
the PIII's don't have SSE2; therefore i rebuild Pd-ext 42.5 for Linux - (Ubuntu Lucid). however running the patch on the PIII still looks like impossible. Pd/GEM just calls it quits, no message.
a basic picture consists of 16 pieces of 800 x 533 pixels, together forming one of 3200 x 2133.
to create a full picture resized to 800 x 533 on a normal display, i have 16 identical abstractions, for each piece one, with a gemhead, a pix_texture, a resize, etc.
with 8 abstractions/pieces Pd/GEM stays alive, 9 is one too many. memory problem?
using the Ubuntu system monitor: bare system (with the monitor) ~290 Mb usage. (of 496MB) starting Pdx console ~300-310 Mb. loading/running the patch ~335-355 MB.
??
on the opening of the patch GEM anounces 8 bits will be used, where the onboard video-card has 24bits.
any help is appreciated.
rolf