bugs 2005-05-05 - By Luc-Eric Rousseau
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I think you don't have to reboot to reset resources,
just logging in and out does the trick.
You should avoid running multiple XSI at once,
especially on a dual monitor system; some views
like the animation editor have become quite large,
we're looking at what we can do about it. If it
crashes when opening those view, it is certainty
a resource problem, not a graphic driver problem.
When you open a view a viewport, it is in fact not opening
a new one, but recycling the last one used in a viewport,
which had not really been closed but just hidden.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Matt Hollingsworth
>
> Hey,
>
> Of course, now it won't crash. XSI wrote and wants me to
> send them the
> CAB, and it won't crash when I want it to. Alway crashes
> when I _don't
> want it to, though, so I gotta trick it!
>
> ;-)
>
> Anyway, I am indeed on dual monitor. I have two copies of
> XSI open, but
> these same exact problems happen to the guy next to me, who
> never works
> with two copies open. Other thant those, the only things I have open
> are Thunderbird, AIM, Firefox and the task manager, none of which is
> taking very many resources.
>
> Yeah, I reboot two or three times a day usually. I always
> reboot when I
> arrive at work first off, then usually after a crash, though
> not every
> time or I'd spend my entire day rebooting.
>
> Same res on both monitors. Yes, very heavy workgroups, but can't do
> anything about that.
>
> Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
>
> -M
>
> Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
>
> >Crashes when opening windows or changing layout (which
> creates windows..) is symptomatic of running out of resources
> under windows. Resources are memory slots given to items
> such as menu handles and bitmaps. You're more prone to get
> these problems if you run dual screen since you're probably
> using the space and have twice as many windows.
> >
> >Perhaps you're running an application or task bar widget
> that leaks resources, or takes a lot of them. For example,
> iTune is a pig in terms of Windows resources (I'm sure they
> don't mind making windows look bad...), it takes as many
> resources as XSI itself even in compact mode. There can be
> hungry Explorer shell extentions as well. In the Task
> Manager, you can see how many User Objects and GDI objects
> applications take.
> >
> >You could also be using a custom XSI layout that has too
> many views in it; stack of views are very expensive and
> shouldn't dock large views like the animation editor (which
> contains the dopesheet, expression editor, fcurve editor and
> scene explorer)
> >
> >When all else fails rebooting the machine does clear out any
> resource leak that might be lingering in the shell.
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