bugs 2005-05-05 - By matt hollingsworth
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Hey,
Not having two copies open is nto much of an option right now as I am
working on a bunch of shots at the same time. While waiting for a cloud
to compute in one scene, I can go and work on a shader in another, even
if it means crashes. The amount of work I get done is still going to be
more. Res on the monitors is only set to 1280-1024, and it's a dual 3
gig CPU with 2 gigs of RAM, and usually o the only other stuff I have
open are Firefox, Thunderbird and AIM. I usually reboot after crashes
out of habit, and have also been told Windows doesn't like releasing RAM
on closed software, so want to clear the system. Is this not true?
I like the software, so don't get me wrong. Everybody has their rough
days, though. As one friend said, CG software is always "on the
bleeding edge", ie putting in tons of high end features. Well, usually
it's our job to use them to the point of breaking them. Then we
complain, and the software is improved. We are really beta testers,
afterall.
;-)
Thanks for any and all help.
cheers,
-Matt
Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
>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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