The image library has a message that says "Cannot allocate xx bytes of contiguous memory" This might happen if you are using a lot of very large images.
On 22 February 2016 at 10:16, Matt Morris <matt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking it must be a leak of some sort. Running win 7 64, an i7 > 5930K, 32Gb ram, titan X. No issues with large scenes with billions of > polys. But a cartoony character that's not very high res, with only envelope > and shapes on is running out of memory. Wierd. > > I'm using the shape manager to model each shape in turn, generally switch to > different shape or anim tab to check it which bakes the move components into > the shape, so I don't see how its using up 32Gb.. > > On 22 February 2016 at 15:07, Sven Constable <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> > wrote: >> >> I think the "contiguous memory problem" can happen with 32bit as well as >> 64bit systems. Even if you have plenty of ram. Let's say you have 2 GB of >> free memory and the application needs to allocate only 500megs of ram, it >> can fail because the 1GB is of small chunks and all of these chunks are >> under 500MB. The more applications or memory intensive tasks are running and >> the longer you work with them, the more "fragmented" the memory will become. >> It can help to restart the machine and use only the programs you absolutely >> need. Perhaps more RAM can help to encounter the problem later, but I don't >> think it will solve it entirely. >> >> Haven’t seen this for quite some time. >> >> >> >> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of >> pete...@skynet.be >> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 3:23 PM >> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> Subject: Re: si runs out of contiguous memory >> >> >> >> hm, haven’t those words since the legacy particle system and 32bit. >> >> I understand this as ‘running out of ram’ (does task manager agree?) >> >> >> >> are you freezing the shapes? >> >> lots of dense geo, with lots of operations in the stack – sounds like >> you’ll eat up resources eventually. >> >> >> >> From: Matt Morris >> >> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 2:03 PM >> >> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> >> Subject: si runs out of contiguous memory >> >> >> >> Hi list, >> >> >> >> I've been modelling a lot of shapes in 2015 r2, and have been getting >> numerous crashes after a certain amount of work, where si seems to run out >> of memory with the above error. Particularly if I'm using proportional >> modelling and symmetry in the shape manager window. Definitely running >> slowly as well. >> >> >> >> I thought it might be to do with ice trees on other meshes referencing >> this one, but having deleted all refs and any ice trees on the geo, it still >> happens. >> >> >> >> Is anyone else seeing anything similar? Not sure whether its 2015 related >> but I can't remember having anything like this much trouble in 2014 sp2. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> www.matinai.com >> >> ________________________________ >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > > -- > www.matinai.com > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
