That's exactly the error message I'm getting, though I don't think I have
any images loaded - all my viewports are wireframe or shaded, and the
textures that are linked on the character are not linked up (remote job,
only have the model).


On 22 February 2016 at 15:32, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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