[IDV #STG-449976]: IDV - "optimum" configuration

HP-

> Thank you, Don, for this exhaustive information. I'm glad I contributed
> to the users' guide ;-)

A first cut at the user's guide page will be in tomorrow's build under
the miscellaneous section (Performance Tuning).  Comments are welcome.

Don.

> Unidata IDV Support wrote:
> > HP-
> >
> >> Institution: EUMETSAT
> >> Package Version: 2.1b1
> >> Operating System: os.name:Windows XP; os.arch:x86; os.version:5.1;
> >> Hardware Information: java.vendor:Sun Microsystems Inc.; 
> >> java.version:1.5.0_06; java.home:C:\\Program Files\\IDV_2.1b1\\jre; 
> >> j3d.version:1.3.2 fcs (build12); j3d.vendor:Sun Microsystems, Inc.; 
> >> j3d.renderer:OpenGL;
> >> Inquiry: Hi
> >>
> >> Every now and then IDV aborts when handling a couple of larger data sets.
> >> I remeber having seen once something about heap size flashing at me before 
> >> abort.
> >> I have been looking in the documentation for some hints about
> >> "optimum" configration of memory use and the like, but was not very 
> >> successful.
> >> Can you give any guidance in general and perhaps also for my is M$ XP T43b
> >> ex-IBM notebook with 1MB of RAM.
> >
> > The best (only?) reference is in the FAQ:
> >
> > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/userguide/Faq.html#faq1_cat3_12
> >
> > 512m is probably best for a Windows system with 1 Gb of RAM.  Windows
> > takes up half of that anyway and once Windows has to start swapping,
> > performance severely degrades.  On a Linux system, you can probably
> > get away with 700m for 1 Gb of memory as it does a much better
> > job of swapping.  All this also depends on what else you are running
> > on the machine and how much memory it takes.  On my XP system, sometimes
> > Firefox ends up eating up > 120 Mb which affects my IDV.
> >
> > For a 2Gb system, you can probably allocate 1.5 Gb to the IDV.
> >
> > I think for the next release, it would be good to have a page on
> > performance tuning.  There are several other things you can do to
> > reduce memory consumption:
> >
> > - turn off in memory caching - if you are only displaying/using an
> > image once (i.e. not using it for multiple calcuations), you can
> > keep from caching in memory.  With caching on, we keep a copy of
> > the image in memory for future access (true for grids as well).
> > - set the max image size that will be displayed.  This will allow
> > you to download a large image, but it will be resampled before
> > displaying if it is larger than the max pixel size you have asked
> > for.
> > (both of these options are under the Data and Formats tab of the
> > Preferences dialog)
> >
> > - Turn on Fast Rendering.  This will create displays without accounting
> > for projection seams which uses more memory.  If you are displaying
> > the data in it's native projection, you can probably get away with
> > this.  If you run into problems (i.e. bad displays), let us know.
> > Satellite projections are tricky and this may not always work.  However,
> > we can look into any problems you find.  This option is available
> > in the Preferences also.
> >
> > So now, I can just take this and put it in the user's guide. ;-)
> >
> > Don Murray
> >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
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> > Ticket ID: STG-449976
> > Department: Support IDV
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Open
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: STG-449976
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed