Set Made DatabasePager TargetMaximumNumberOfPageLOD technique the be the default with a default target number of PagedLOD of 500.
Set DatabasePager DoPreCompile to OFF by default.
I suggest moving the definition of OSG_DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH (which is responsible for this global rebuild) into osgDB/CMakeLists.txt which is the only library in the code where this definition is (and is likely ever to be) used. This way if the user changes it, only osgDB will rebuild."
a capping the number of PagedLOD to a sepcified maximum, with pruning of inactive
PagedLOD when the total number of inactive and active PagedLOD goes above the maximum.
To enable the mode set the env var OSG_MAX_PAGEDLOD to a value something like 1000.
..\..\..\..\src\osgDB\Registry.cpp(910) : warning C4806: '==' : unsafe operation: no value of type 'bool' promoted to type 'osgDB::Registry::LoadStatus' can equal the given constant
A quick review of the code revealed a piece of code that was clearly wrong, possibly due to a copy-and-paste error.
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mode. Nevertheless, the code doesn't acknowledge that, so I had problems with
debug versions of the library not being able to open their plugins whereas
the release versions worked fine.
I have made the same changes in Registry.cpp that are available for the rest
of platforms appending that "d" to their plugins. I have also updated the
CMakeLists.txt file to get "_DEBUG" defined at compilation time. I have
copied the already existent conditional block because of cmake's bizarre
operator precedence. Since Cygwin defines both CYGWIN and WIN32, the
following would suffice:
IF(CYGWIN OR UNIX AND NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
Sadly, it actually doesn't work, so I wrote a new conditional block just for
Cygwin. I could join the two blocks when the parentheses support is added in
newer versions of cmake."
New attribute DatabasePager::_expiryFrames sets number of frames a PagedLOD child is kept in memory. The attribute is set with DatabasePager::setExpiryFrames method or OSG_EXPIRY_FRAMES environmental variable.
New attribute PagedLOD::PerRangeData::_
frameNumber contains frame number of last cull traversal.
Children of PagedLOD are expired when time _AND_ number of frames since last cull traversal exceed OSG_EXPIRY_DELAY _AND_ OSG_EXPIRY_FRAMES respectively. By default OSG_EXPIRY_FRAMES = 1 which means that nodes from last cull/rendering
traversal will not be expired even if last cull time exceeds OSG_EXPIRY_DELAY. Setting OSG_EXPIRY_FRAMES = 0 revokes previous behaviour of PagedLOD.
Setting OSG_EXPIRY_FRAMES > 0 fixes problems of children reloading in lazy rendering applications. Required behaviour is achieved by manipulating OSG_EXPIRY_DELAY and OSG_EXPIRY_FRAMES together.
Two interface changes are made:
DatabasePager::updateSceneGraph(double currentFrameTime) is replaced by DatabasePager::updateSceneGraph(const osg::FrameStamp &frameStamp). The previous method is in #if 0 clause in the header file. Robert, decide if You want to include it.
PagedLOD::removeExpiredChildren(double expiryTime, NodeList &removedChildren) is deprecated (warning is printed), when subclassing use PagedLOD::removeExpiredChildren(double expiryTime, int expiryFrame, NodeList &removedChildren) instead. "
first post:
"I had the problem that debug and release version of the plugins had the same name under linux. These minors modification to Registry and the CMake support files enable to have both Release and Debug version of the plugins to coexist and be found by there respective runtimes."
follow up post:
"I've gone ahead and added a preprocessor directive with the editable CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX. I modified Registry.cpp to take this new preprocessor directive called OSG_DEBUG_POSTFIX while looking for libraries in Debug mode for the windows (msvc) and the linux platforms.
MinGW, cygwin and Apple are still left out this proposal."
Notes from Robert Osfield, completed the work in change d entries to use OSG_DEBUG_POSTFIX
multi-threaded paging, where the Pager manages threads of reading local
and http files via seperate threads. This makes it possible to smoothly
browse large databases where parts of the data are locally cached while
others are on a remote server. Previously with this type of dataset
the pager would stall all paging while http requests were being served,
even when parts of the models are still loadable virtue of being in the
local cache.
Also as part of the refactoring the DatabaseRequest are now stored in the
ProxyNode/PagedLOD nodes to facilitate quite updating in the cull traversal,
with the new code avoiding mutex locks and searches. Previous on big
databases the overhead involved in make database requests could accumulate
to a point where it'd cause the cull traversal to break frame. The overhead
now is negligable.
Finally OSG_FILE_CACHE support has been moved from the curl plugin into
the DatabasePager. Eventually this functionality will be moved out into
osgDB for more general usage.
ReaderWriter::ReadResult now has a FILE_REQUEST enum.
ReaderWriter::Options now has a s/getAsynchronousFileReadHint() parameter methods.
libcurl based plugin now detects enabing of the AsynchronousFileReadHint, but
as yet does not handle async requests - handling everything syncronously.
DatabasePager now by default will enable AsynchronousFileReadHint for http
based file requests
filesystem is case-sensitive. Here are the modifications needed to make
the compiler happy. These are only some include lines rewritten (Io.h to
io.h, Windows.h to windows.h etc.) for version 2.3.7."
as not expiring subgraphs quick enough to enable reasonable load balancing.
New version isn't perfect and will need further work, but does at least reduce
the memory footprint by as much as half on test paths on big databases.
The rewritten method no longer uses the the MaximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs
and MinimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs variables so these and associated methods
for accessing them have been removed.
- /** Set the maximum number of PagedLOD child to remove per frame */
- void setMaximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs(unsigned int number) { _maximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs = number; }
-
- /** Get the maximum number of PagedLOD child to remove per frame */
- unsigned int getMaximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs() const { return _maximumNumOfRemovedChildPagedLODs; }
-
- /** Set the minimum number of inactive PagedLOD child to keep */
- void setMinimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs(unsigned int number) { _minimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs = number; }
-
- /** Get the minimum number of inactive PagedLOD child to keep */
- unsigned int getMinimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs() const { return _minimumNumOfInactivePagedLODs; }
creating subclasses of osg::Array that referenced data
stored an application's internal data structures. I took
a stab at implementing that and ran into a couple of
downcasts in Geometry.cpp. Enclosed is my take at fixing
those along with a simple example of how to do this."
in the DatabasePager. The practical effects of these are to greatly reduce startup time
and the time to load an individual scenery tile in FlightGear.
- From my log message:
Minimize the number of StateSets and drawables that are compiled by checking
if they have already been compiled or will be elminated by the
SharedStateManager.
Move the sorting of the dataToCompile queue out of compileGLObjects
into the man pager run function.
Change the SharedStateManager to use maps instead of vectors."
- Get or set the target number of PagedLOD children to remove per frame.
- Get or set the minimum number of inactive PagedLOD to keep.
Corresponding environment variables have been added too.
The default values reproduce the previous DatabasePager behavior."
"" for all platforms except Cygwin where its set to "cygwin_" and Mingw where
it is set to "mingw_". Updated osgDB::Registry to look for these for the plugins.
Updated the osgintrospection example to search for these names as well.
