I believe there to be a memory leak issue with creating assets and allocating a particlized NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh to the asset. However, with my code set up in the way it is, I can only provide evidence for this memory leak for the following case:
As a global variable, I create the asset during initialization:
NvFlexExtAsset* asset;
For each rollout (Every 10 seconds or so), I then re-allocate this same asset with a soft mesh using the following:
asset = NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh( ....... );
When all rollouts are complete, I destroy the asset. Note that a rollout is not necessarily a single initialization of a scene but rather a set of them (I think this difference is moot for my point though). If instead of running asset = NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh( ....... ); each rollout, I only create the soft the very first rollout, save it, and use it on all subsequent rollouts, there is no leak.
To better confirm this possible leak, I would test the following instead, where a new asset is created and destroyed each rollout:
Every 10 seconds:
NvFlexExtAsset* asset = NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh( ....... );NvFlexExtDestroyAsset(asset);
However, my code isn't set up in a friendly way to do that at the moment.
Severity of the leak: The soft has ~35,000 particles. If I run it for about 10 hours, it will use up 7 GB of memory. Of course, killing it and restarting fixes things. The leak is not precluding what I am doing; rather, it's just FYI.
I believe there to be a memory leak issue with creating assets and allocating a particlized
NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMeshto the asset. However, with my code set up in the way it is, I can only provide evidence for this memory leak for the following case:As a global variable, I create the asset during initialization:
NvFlexExtAsset* asset;For each rollout (Every 10 seconds or so), I then re-allocate this same asset with a soft mesh using the following:asset = NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh( ....... );When all rollouts are complete, I destroy the asset. Note that a rollout is not necessarily a single initialization of a scene but rather a set of them (I think this difference is moot for my point though). If instead of running asset =
NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh( ....... );each rollout, I only create the soft the very first rollout, save it, and use it on all subsequent rollouts, there is no leak.To better confirm this possible leak, I would test the following instead, where a new asset is created and destroyed each rollout: Every 10 seconds:
NvFlexExtAsset* asset = NvFlexExtCreateSoftFromMesh( ....... );NvFlexExtDestroyAsset(asset);However, my code isn't set up in a friendly way to do that at the moment.Severity of the leak: The soft has ~35,000 particles. If I run it for about 10 hours, it will use up 7 GB of memory. Of course, killing it and restarting fixes things. The leak is not precluding what I am doing; rather, it's just FYI.
Warmth, Henry C.