[Tilesathome] Inkscape crashes under win32 and renderstripes

[Milenko]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Julius" <lists at julius-net.net>
To: <tilesathome at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Tilesathome] Inkscape crashes under win32 and renderstripes


> "Milenko" <milenko at king-nerd.com> writes:
>
>>     Is this an inkscape problem?  Or is it to blame on windows?  I've
>> tried using renderstripes=5 in tilesathome.conf, and it seemed to help
>> some but not as much as I expected.  As I understand it, renderstripes
>> at 5 will split layer 17 into 4 stripes and render them all
>> seperately, thus reducing memory usage to a quarter of what it would
>> be to render the layer as a whole.  Is this correct?
>
> Yes, but I doubt Inkscape's memory usage correlates in that way with
> the PNG size.  After all, it still has to evaluate the whole SVG.  But
> the stripes are a quater of the whole z17 PNG and thus the same size
> as the z16 PNG.
>
>> If so, would it be possible to increase the number of stripes to
>> further reduce memory usage?
>
> Yes, try RenderStripes=4

I'll try that, but doesn't that mean that the client will starting striping 
at 16 instead of 17?  Will it decrease the memory usage?

>
> Do you set MaxTilesetComplexity?

Max is set to 6 - 8,000,000 on most of the clients.  I'll try setting it 
lower I guess.  Seems a waste though on a machine that _could_ do more that 
that.

>
> Matthias
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