[ODE] Freezing Problems in ODE.

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

If I were you, I'd put a timer into your program, timing the duration of 
a call into the DLL, and pull an assert if a call takes longer than 
(say) 0.5 seconds. That way, you can tell for sure whether it's your DLL 
or something else that does the spiking.

Also, if you can provoke the slowness, you could find where it is either 
by quickly breaking the process in the debugger, or by using VTune and 
seeing where the time is going.

Cheers,

          / h+


Matthew Nunya wrote:
>
> I have been playing around with ODE for a year or so now and have 
> recently decided to do something useful with it. I'm currently witting 
> a DLL so that I can do some simple physics in "Game Maker" (if you 
> haven't heard of it, it's basically a scripting engine of sorts, like 
> Blitz). However, I keep running into a nagging problem that won't go 
> away, and I'm sure it isn't Game Maker that's causing it. I could be 
> simulating only a couple of bodies and joints and everything will be 
> running quite smoothly at 60 fps, then at random everything will 
> freeze and my entire system will hang for a few seconds before 
> returning back to normal and running smoothly. This could happen 
> anytime, it doesn't only occur when things collide.
>
> I have done my best to try and narrow down what's causing it but my 
> attempts have been fruitless. I have played with ERP, CFM, step sizes, 
> and other configurations for hours to no avail.
>
> What I do know about my problem is that when ever it occurs, the 
> processor load spikes at 100% for the duration of the freeze and my 
> hard drive will only rev slightly near the end of the freeze. It's 
> very slightly, because I'm not running out of physical memory and 
> windows doesn't need to resort to virtual memory. In fact, the 
> simulation's memory doesn't change at all. It isn't leaking any memory 
> to the best of my knowledge. I am at a real loss as to why it happens.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else as experienced this problem and if so, 
> I would be incredibly curious to know how to correct it. Any help of 
> advice anyone could offer would be infinitely appreciated.
>
> Just in case it helps, this is the system I'm running on:
>
> WinXP (SP2) / Athlon64 3400+ / 1GB Ram / EIDE 160 GB HD
>
>
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