"System Out of Memory " - but is it really...? 2004-01-26 - By DRxDON
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Hi Kris,
Are you using tS6/tS6.5 or tS5? I haven't noticed this problem with
tS6 yet, but with tS5, whenever I tied to render a large scene, the
meory would just be gobbled up like crazy and I'd get the same pop
up boxes as you had. I have a 1.4GHZ Athlon with 1GB of memory
running Win2K. The Win2K System Performance would indeed show that
memory was being continually used up as the rendering proceded, but
as with you, the swap file never "took over" much. It seems, to me
at least, that tS5 had a problem with returning memory to the system
as it was being used. I use Cacheman instead of RamBooster. You can
manually free up "frozen" memory at any time you wish.
Sorry I couldn't help with the problem, since I don't REALLY know
what is the base cause myself. If you want, you can check out
Cacheman at http://www.outertech.com/ . You can get a free version
that performs all of the basic tasks that you need.
Don
Kris <pterochromics@(protected)> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to render a scene that's 168MB in size. I set up a Swap file
> that's 4GB in size and have 1 GB of RAM. I also have RamBooster running.
>
> WHen I try to render the scene, I get "Out Of Memory" system boxes pop up,
> usually 4 one right after the other. I close the boxes.
>
> RamBooster is showing that the RAM percentage-used bar does
> fluctuate. Also, the Swap file has never gotten over about 1.7GB in size,
> IOW, not even half the capacity has been used.
>
> As an experiment, I'm leaving the system running after having closed the
> message boxes.
>
> What I'm wondering is:
> (1) why does tS generate Out Of Memory warnings when it hasn't used more
> than 1/4 to 1/3 of the RAM *or* the VIrtual Memory (swap file)?
> (2) Should I let the thing continue running in the hope that it will
> eventually render after a few days, or is tS just dead in the water despite
> the changes (according to RamBooster) in the %age of RAM used?
>
> Thanks In Advance :) !
>
> - Kris M. Krieger
> http://www.pterochromics.com
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