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Title: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Christa Noel on 2015-09-16, 06:58:04
hi,
this time I got many times of low RAM error message. I see that RAM is used at 75% in task manager when error message pop-up.
check attachments :)
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: maru on 2015-09-16, 10:38:30
You have ~1,5GB free RAM, which isn't very much. I don't know how exactly this warning works, but it probably pops up after you have less than some specified amount of RAM free. So there is no problem here, right?
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Ondra on 2015-09-16, 10:50:42
The warning pops out when Windows signals all applications that the available memory is low and that they should release any memory they could spare. Measuring memory usage is really tricky/impossible feat, so we use this as our best guess.
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Nekrobul on 2015-09-16, 17:17:42
You should increase pgefile size to something like 25-50GB that would help to deal with the lack of memory.

For example PC i am curently working on have 16GB of ram and 40GB pagefile on SSD that helps me to deal with insane exterior scenes which usualy consume sowhere around 30 GB of RAM on renderslave xeons wich have 48 GB of RAM.

PS - may be this trick just sould be included in FAQ? poping out mesage about lack of RAM might get anoying )
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Christa Noel on 2015-09-16, 17:34:21
PS - may be this trick just sould be included in FAQ? poping out mesage about lack of RAM might get anoying )
yes i think so... Agree with u.

For ondra, can you make that error message just always_on_top inside 3ds max only? I think it is a bit uncomfortable when it keep on top even when i switch to another win application



Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Ondra on 2015-09-16, 18:40:45
will try
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Nejc Kilar on 2015-09-18, 07:15:12
You should increase pgefile size to something like 25-50GB that would help to deal with the lack of memory.

For example PC i am curently working on have 16GB of ram and 40GB pagefile on SSD that helps me to deal with insane exterior scenes which usualy consume sowhere around 30 GB of RAM on renderslave xeons wich have 48 GB of RAM.

PS - may be this trick just sould be included in FAQ? poping out mesage about lack of RAM might get anoying )

I actually thought about doing this as well.

Would you mind telling me if you've only put the large pagefile to the SSD or is it necessary to have it ON on other drives too?
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Nekrobul on 2015-09-18, 11:26:07
You should increase pgefile size to something like 25-50GB that would help to deal with the lack of memory.

For example PC i am curently working on have 16GB of ram and 40GB pagefile on SSD that helps me to deal with insane exterior scenes which usualy consume sowhere around 30 GB of RAM on renderslave xeons wich have 48 GB of RAM.

PS - may be this trick just sould be included in FAQ? poping out mesage about lack of RAM might get anoying )

I actually thought about doing this as well.



Would you mind telling me if you've only put the large pagefile to the SSD or is it necessary to have it ON on other drives too?


It does not matter wich drive it will be. SSD works faster that why i use it. It could be any HDD where you always have enough free space. And one Pagefile is enough.
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Nejc Kilar on 2015-09-18, 23:21:00
[quote author=Nekrobul
It does not matter wich drive it will be. SSD works faster that why i use it. It could be any HDD where you always have enough free space. And one Pagefile is enough.
[/quote]

Hey man, thank you! It is much appreciated! It's been a while since I've had to set the pagefile (probably back on XP) and I was kind of surprised it was only my HDD that was tasked with having the virtual memory.

Thanks!
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Ondra on 2015-10-07, 17:14:53
the error window is now on top only in 3dsmax, and it pop out only if Corona is currently rendering
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Christa Noel on 2015-10-08, 09:54:59
great! :D
congrats for very nice error report feature!
Title: Re: corona error message - running low on RAM
Post by: Jack on 2016-09-19, 18:08:19
You should increase pgefile size to something like 25-50GB that would help to deal with the lack of memory.

For example PC i am curently working on have 16GB of ram and 40GB pagefile on SSD that helps me to deal with insane exterior scenes which usualy consume sowhere around 30 GB of RAM on renderslave xeons wich have 48 GB of RAM.

PS - may be this trick just sould be included in FAQ? poping out mesage about lack of RAM might get anoying )

Thank you guys for sharing!!