Re: [Gnash-dev] Gnash0.8.2 memory usage improvement on ARMv6 -- seeking support

[strk]

Another thing is that current CVS supports use of an environment
variable to specify how many new GC-managed objects should be allocated
before a new collection cycle starts.
Try exporting GNASH_GC_TRIGGER_THRESHOLD=1

--strk;

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:38:18AM +0200, strk wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:51:47AM +0800, Hong Yu wrote:
> > 
> > We have ported Gnash0.8.2 to ARMv6 platform. However Gnash0.8.2 fails to 
> > play one of our .swf file satisfactorily, by ending with 
> > 'std::bad_alloc' message, indicating that it consumes out 120MB and more 
> > memory. Therefore we wish to improve Gnash0.8.2's performance for ARM. 
> > Would anyone have suggestions and/or clues on how we can gradually 
> > achieve the goal of improving Gnash for low level platform(s)? Thanks.
> 
> My suggestion is to find out what's taking up all the memory as first
> thing. One of valgrind tools should help (massif).
> 
> valgrind --tool=massif gtk-gui <movie>
> 
> --strk;