My early experiments seem to indicate about 20-30% more memory required by ordinary Panda operations. I’m trying a compile now with the original alternative malloc scheme to see how much of this bloat is due to alignment requirements and how much is due to the change in malloc schemes.
Is that 30% additional requirement enough to push you over the edge on the client? How close were you running previously? How much does memory grow before your client dies?
Edit: another thought–are you perhaps comparing against the memory usage in 1.7.2? It’s also possible that the threading change with 1.8.0 is another major contributor to more memory consumption.
Would you be satisfied to use a Panda3D compiled with Win64, to allow it take advantage of more than 2GB of RAM?
David