While rendering in Maya 4, it was noticed that the computer was not using much of the 2 gigs of RAM available. Is there any way to allocate more RAM for Maya to use?
Thanks
How much was it using? How heavy was the scene?
Actually Maya only needs 128mb RAM to run and what I have noticed is that it seems to use more of the CPU for calculations and the RAM is not as important.
You could set up your machine to run Maya, or Maya & the OS, or Maya & the database/animation files from a RAM disk...other than that I don't believe there's any method of 'allocating' RAM within W2K...
...an App. will simply use as much as it requires,..or if it runs out of physical RAM will begin to access virtual memory (paging file).
BUT..if you do find a way I'd be very interested to learn how.
Sorry Boy, but thats absoltely not true. If you have heavy scenes with lot of polygons nurbs and or textures, particles maya eats all your ram. I have scenes with 1 mio polys here and maya eats 400-700 megs and I am not rendering yet. More ram is always important. Otherwise windows has to swap memory to harddisk, you know how slow this is?
maya NT can only use a maximum of 1.6 gb ram. This is because it is an 32 bit app. and win2k is 32bit too. I guess on the Irix version this limit does not exist.
I am going to check how much of the RAM is actually being used. I tried the new computer I built on the Render Test. I didnt do bad, 1min 2 sec., but I am just looking how to squeeze everything out of my comp for rendering.
How do I set my RAM to run for Maya? (A couple of posts earlier)
If anyone knows of any settings, I will try them out and post my results.
Thanks
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Dual Amd MP 1900+
2 gig DDR
Tyan Tiger MPX
But noe, if it's only a tid-bit of a scene, he IS likely to see something as he's describing,....especially as he's likely began using his default size page-file before even opening the scene-file. Non?
Windows allocates Ram automaticaly, there is no setting like the Mac. You can tweak the setting ie. large page file and the lile. Checkout
http://arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/others/memory-1.html
Auch
Try www.ultratech-llc.com lots of windows info on pagefile allocation, one thing I do on systems I setup is to set up partitions system 3.5Gb, page 2.5x Ram, Data
to rest of drive space, 2Gb final Partition for Ghost backup of system. The seperate page partition is not recommended or optimal but I like it as I get no fragmentation so defrag operation is less, NTFS is good for low fragmentation but not in Raid 0 situations as fragmentation higher than single drives.