by Wanderer » Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:53 am
Here's another one. Not reporting it as a bug, it's not easily reproducible, it happened once, i can't explain why and here it is.
Out of memory exception.
I had Firefox open (consumed a little less than 1 GB of RAM - playing videos from youtube) and all other programs consumed less than 50MB each. The only other thing i had open was RC, with 4 DBs open of 4 different mame versions. Playing around, i got the "out of memory" error when adding a samples folder to one of the DBs. At the time, RC did not consume very much memory, it must have something between 1 and 2 GBs. The free Physical memory in Task Manager varied between 30 and 34%.
Now, how much RAM does my PC (laptop) actually has, you might ask. Well it has 16GBs! and it seems as if the 4 open DBs of RC ate all that (seems, i don't think it did though)! BTW, 13GBs free on my C: where the swapfile exists.
In some DBs i had added the same roms path, to check how RC works. Here is the setup:
0.125 - ROMS & Samples paths added
0.142 - ROMS path added
0.163 - ROMS path added
0.180 - NO paths added
The "out of memory" occurred while i was trying to add the Samples path to the 0.142 DB.
I'm not expecting it to be reproduced, i'm thinking there may be some memory-leak involved though. All DBs were freshly created, no upgrades.
Here's another one. Not reporting it as a bug, it's not easily reproducible, it happened once, i can't explain why and here it is.
Out of memory exception.
I had Firefox open (consumed a little less than 1 GB of RAM - playing videos from youtube) and all other programs consumed less than 50MB each. The only other thing i had open was RC, with 4 DBs open of 4 different mame versions. Playing around, i got the "out of memory" error when adding a samples folder to one of the DBs. At the time, RC did not consume very much memory, it must have something between 1 and 2 GBs. The free Physical memory in Task Manager varied between 30 and 34%.
Now, how much RAM does my PC (laptop) actually has, you might ask. Well it has 16GBs! and it seems as if the 4 open DBs of RC ate all that ([i]seems[/i], i don't think it did though)! BTW, 13GBs free on my C: where the swapfile exists.
In some DBs i had added the same roms path, to check how RC works. Here is the setup:
0.125 - ROMS & Samples paths added
0.142 - ROMS path added
0.163 - ROMS path added
0.180 - NO paths added
The "out of memory" occurred while i was trying to add the Samples path to the 0.142 DB.
I'm not expecting it to be reproduced, i'm thinking there may be some memory-leak involved though. All DBs were freshly created, no upgrades.