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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-10-09 02:26, jp charras wrote:
> Le 07/10/2019 à 20:07, Seth Hillbrand a écrit :
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> Here is a test showing the memory used by pcbnew, with and without CJK
> font (I used the Windows monitor resources):
>
> Initial state:
> Available memory: 2280 Mb
> Kicad is compiled in Release version.
>
> pcbnew loaded, without CJK:
> Available memory: 2153 Mb
> pcbnew + fp viewer loaded, without CJK:
> Available memory: 2139 Mb
> Pcbnew+Eeschema, without CJK:
> Available memory: 2060 Mb
>
> pcbnew loaded, with CJK:
> Available memory: 1590 Mb
> pcbnew + fp viewer loaded, without CJK:
> Available memory: 1537 Mb
> Pcbnew+Eeschema, with CJK:
> Available memory: 1176 Mb
>
> So, the CJK font takes roughly 900Mb at run time when runnning Eeschema
> + Pcbnew.
>
> It explains why I am running out of memory.
> There is certainly room for optimization.

Thanks JP!  I can look into that.  I see the same difference in total 
size under Linux but interestingly not in malloc allocations, so I'll 
need to dig a bit deeper into that usage.

Best-
Seth

Seth Hillbrand
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