HD78532: MEMORY USE INCREASES RAPIDLY WHEN ANIMATING PRODUCTS IN PRESENC E OF SECTION

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Memory use increases rapidly when animating
  products in presence of section.
  .
  Scenario
  1)Extract the sample CATIA documents attached to
  the case.
  2)Extract the sample CAA workspace attached to
  the case. Build the workspace at level V5R18SP5
  with Visual Studio 2005 for 32-bit Windows.
  3)Start CATIA from the sample workspace.
  4)Change the workbench to the one defined in the
  sample workspace: Start > Digital Mockup > SDS
  Standard User
  5)Open ?__CATProduct22.CATProduct? from the
  documents extracted at step 1.
  6)Use the workspace command that moves sub-
  products in an animation:
  a)Select the motion frame player icon:
  b)Press the play forward icon:
  7)Open the Task Manager or the Microsoft
  Management Console to observe the memory
  consumed by CATIA while the animation
  proceeds. On my workstation and using MMC I
  observe an increase in program memory of about
  2.5 Mbytes per second
  .
  Result:Excessive growth in process memory.
  .
  If you replay the scenario and if you do the
  following, then the problem is not reproducible:
  .
  1)Extract the sample CATIA documents attached to
  the case.
  2)Extract the sample CAA workspace attached to
  the case.Build the workspace at level V5R18SP5
  with Visual Studio 2005 for 32-bit Windows.
  3)Start CATIA from the sample workspace.
  4)Change the workbench to the one defined in the
  sample workspace: Start > Digital Mockup > SDS
  Standard User
  5)Open ?__CATProduct22.CATProduct? from the
  documents extracted at step 1.
  5.a).****NEW STEP: delete the feature "Section.1"
  (which is under CATProduct22-->Applications--
  >Sections)
  6)Use the workspace command that moves sub-
  products in an animation:
  6.a)Select the motion frame player icon:
  6.b)Press the play forward icon:
  7)Open the Task Manager or the Microsoft
  Management Console to observe the memory
  consumed by CATIA while the animation
  proceeds.
  .
  This scenario is the same as the original except the
  new step (5.b) was added.
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Memory use increases rapidly when animating products in presenc
  e of section
  Memory use increases rapidly when animating
  products in presence of section.
  .
  Scenario
  1)Extract the sample CATIA documents attached to
  the case.
  2)Extract the sample CAA workspace attached to
  the case. Build the workspace at level V5R18SP5
  with Visual Studio 2005 for 32-bit Windows.
  3)Start CATIA from the sample workspace.
  4)Change the workbench to the one defined in the
  sample workspace: Start > Digital Mockup > SDS
  Standard User
  5)Open ?__CATProduct22.CATProduct? from the
  documents extracted at step 1.
  6)Use the workspace command that moves sub-
  products in an animation:
  a)Select the motion frame player icon:
  b)Press the play forward icon:
  7)Open the Task Manager or the Microsoft
  Management Console to observe the memory
  consumed by CATIA while the animation
  proceeds. On my workstation and using MMC I
  observe an increase in program memory of about
  2.5 Mbytes per second
  .
  Result:Excessive growth in process memory.
  .
  If you replay the scenario and if you do the
  following, then the problem is not reproducible:
  .
  1)Extract the sample CATIA documents attached to
  the case.
  2)Extract the sample CAA workspace attached to
  the case.Build the workspace at level V5R18SP5
  with Visual Studio 2005 for 32-bit Windows.
  3)Start CATIA from the sample workspace.
  4)Change the workbench to the one defined in the
  sample workspace: Start > Digital Mockup > SDS
  Standard User
  5)Open ?__CATProduct22.CATProduct? from the
  documents extracted at step 1.
  5.a).****NEW STEP: delete the feature "Section.1"
  (which is under CATProduct22-->Applications--
  >Sections)
  6)Use the workspace command that moves sub-
  products in an animation:
  6.a)Select the motion frame player icon:
  6.b)Press the play forward icon:
  7)Open the Task Manager or the Microsoft
  Management Console to observe the memory
  consumed by CATIA while the animation
  proceeds.
  .
  This scenario is the same as the original except the
  new step (5.b) was added.
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM WILL BE FIXED ON CATIA VERSION
  5 RELEASE 20 GA LEVEL.
  NOTE THAT THIS PROBLEM WILL ALSO BE FIXED
  ON V5R19SP05
  During the replay of the simulation, numerous
  objects are created at each step. We succeeded to
  delete some of them, but the others are required to
  update and visualize the section at each step of the
  replay.
  Moreover, for technical reasons, these objects
  remain in memory until the document is open. The
  combined effect of all this is that the memory
  consumption increases as the replay progresses.
  From doing this improvment, we
  got 50% reduction in memory consumption for
  move scenario.
  As the remaining objects are deleted when the
  document is closing, a by pass could be to add the
  call of the following method in
  the "PPRFrmStdPlayerCmd" class constructor.
  //----------------------------------------------------------
  -------------------
  // ReopenDocument()
  //----------------------------------------------------------
  -------------------
  HRESULT PPRFrmStdPlayerCmd::ReopenDocument
  ()
  {
  HRESULT RC = E_FAIL;
  CATFrmEditor * pFrmEditor =
  CATFrmEditor::GetCurrentEditor();
  if (NULL != pFrmEditor)
  {
  CATDocument * pDocument = pFrmEditor ->
  GetDocument();
  if (NULL != pDocument)
  {
  CATUnicodeString DocumentStorageName =
  pDocument -> StorageName ();
  CATSession * pSession =
  CATSession::GetPtrSession();
  if (NULL != pSession)
  {
  CATIIniInteractiveSession *
  pIniInteractiveSession = NULL;
  if (SUCCEEDED(pSession ->
  QueryInterface(IID_CATIIniInteractiveSession,
  (void **)&pIniInteractiveSession)))
  {
  CATIEditor_var spEditor = pDocument;
  RC = pIniInteractiveSession -> Close
  (spEditor);
  CATIEditor * pEditor = NULL;
  if (SUCCEEDED(RC))  RC =
  pIniInteractiveSession -> Open
  (DocumentStorageName, FALSE, &pEditor);
  pIniInteractiveSession -> Release();
  pIniInteractiveSession = NULL;
  }
  }
  }
  }
  return RC;
  }
  .
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CATIA V5 NT>XP

• Fixed component ID

  569151000

Applicable component levels

• R518 PSN

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