[osg-users] Remove all LOD children

[Bruno Oliveira]

I checked with valgrind, and effectively I did not find any memory leak.

The OS System Monitor (Ubuntu, as I said) consistently presents double the
memory valgrind does (e.g., System Monitor says the app is using 2Gb, while
valgrind states it is 1GB).

My data (a point cloud) is actually 1GB (binary format). I thought the 2GB
came from OSG or OpenGL driver keeping a copy of my data for some reason.

2016-05-13 16:23 GMT+01:00 Alberto Luaces <aluaces at udc.es>:

> I think some facts must be made clear:
>
> * You cannot control when the OpenGL driver releases the memory it
>   claimed in a previous instant.
>
> * You cannot control when the operating system claims back the memory
>   pages that a process requested, and in addition, many times it is
>   simply not possible to do it due to memory fragmentation.
>
> * At most, what you can do is to check that your program is not leaking
>   memory with a special tool, as the one I recommended (valgrind for
>   CPUs, other tools for GPUs).
>
> System memory tools are completely unreliable for this specific purpose.
>
> Bruno Oliveira writes:
>
> > I tried removing the children with m_rootNode->removeChildren(0,
> > m_rootNode->getNumChildren());
> > but this results in some memory being still allocated.
> >
> > After that, I move the mouse around a bit in the clean scene, and the
> > memory starts being freed. However, It never gets to the initial
> > value, there is always some memory floating around.
> >
> > 2016-05-13 15:16 GMT+01:00 Alberto Luaces
> > <aluaces at udc.es>:
> >
> >     Bruno,
> >
> >     if you read the source code, you will see that the LOD uses the
> >     same
> >     scheme for storing nodes as a Group: just a vector of ref_ptr that
> >     will
> >     be unallocated when destroyed.
> >
> >     Maybe you can place some breakpoints at the destructors on the
> >     debugger
> >     and see what is happening.
> >
> >     Bruno Oliveira writes:
> >
> >     > Thank you for your answer. However, since I'm using a LOD, I
> >     think it
> >     > is not properly removing my data. At least the memory is still
> >     > allocated.
> >     > If I manually iterate over all nodes and delete them by myself,
> >     some
> >     > memory is freed, but not all!
> >     >
> >     > 2016-05-13 14:58 GMT+01:00 Alberto Luaces
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     > Bruno Oliveira writes:
> >     >
> >     > > At some point I want to completely wipe out my scene. How can
> >     I
> >     > delete
> >     > > all nodes?
> >     >
> >     > If you want to wipe a node and all its descendants, just delete
> >     > the
> >     > parent node. That is what reference counting is all about.
> >
> >     --
> >     Alberto
> >
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