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2008-07-04
2013-04-25
  • Stéphane SOPPERA

    Hi,

    When rendering the following RIB:
    http://stephane.soppera.googlepages.com/too_much_mem.zip
    with pixie 2.2.4 under windows XP, the rndr.exe process take more than 900MB of memory.
    3Delight only takes ~30MB and Aqsis ~48MB.

    Why is Pixie taking so much memory for this very simple scene? Have I done something wrong?

    Thanks in advance for your help,
    Stéphane

     
    • Cedric PAILLE

      Cedric PAILLE - 2008-07-07

      Hi,

      The "interpolateboundary" tag seems to cause the problem. Removing it on WIN32 seems to make it works (27MB consumption).

      On Linux, it works well with the "interpolateboundary" tag, Strange...

      Cheers.

       
    • Stéphane SOPPERA

      Hi,

      Thanks for your answer.
      But this tag is necessary to obtain a correct render, right? (I've not read the renderman specification about subdivision meshes yet, but when I render without this tag, there is a wrong shading where the boundary edges are).
      At least this also explains why the render is so slow when it reaches the boundary edges.

      Regards,
      Stéphane

       
    • bill nieuwendorp

      I just ran into this as well,
      I have 6gb of ram and quickly max it out as well as my swap partition,
      with this file here http://slow67.googlepages.com/outtest.rib.tar.gz
      changing/removing tags do not seem to help the problem. Both 3delight and aqsis render this mesh with relatively low memory footprints
      this is with pixie-2.2.4
      my operating system is 64bit ubuntu.

       
    • bill nieuwendorp

      I just ran into this as well,
      I have 6gb of ram and quickly max it out as well as my swap partition,
      with this file here http://slow67.googlepages.com/outtest.rib.tar.gz
      changing/removing tags do not seem to help the problem. Both 3delight and aqsis render this mesh with relatively low memory footprints
      this is with pixie-2.2.4
      my operating system is 64bit ubuntu.

       
    • John Haiducek

      John Haiducek - 2009-01-13

      I'm experiencing the same problem with both pixie-2.2.4 and the latest svn on ubuntu linux, x86_64.

      I tried removing the "interpolateboundary" directive but still get extreme memory consumption (~2GB).

      You can find my scene at http://sites.google.com/site/johnhaiducek/Home/falcon.tar.gz?attredirects=0

       

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