Maya Aborted Render..end of memory

[hivan]

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[joojaa]

Well i dont know about you but its acatualy, super simple to run out of memory! I mean if raytracing is on then ists a piece of cake. What renderer do you use. Are you rendering in batch, if so is maya on, or just command line? Is your p4 running like it was 2 procs (this effectively means you may be in a situation where you use 2 times the amount of memory).

Also you might have 1 damaged mem chip. Run a full diagnostic. And no the motherboards one isnt sufficent you need a program that checks each bank!

[hivan]

noits just plain ordinary render, without raytrace. using mayas inbuilt render. and maya is on when im render. im Not using hyper treading. The irony is that my old p3 is doing the same job and no chrashes. etc etc. =((

do you know anny apps that check the mem banks ?

[joojaa]

Memtest is pretty good! But yeah, ive seen people having problems with maya that was caused by bad motherboards too (in fact the best way to not have problems on a computer is to buy tested memory, test them and not to buy cheap motherboards... Ive seen vendors sipping 1/10 defective mem chips so be carefull!)... but mem problem is more likely.

PS. dont double post.

[swishpan]

I ran into this today while trying to get some renders out. I checked around the office, and some of the other guys have been running into the same problems.

Apparently, it has to do with texture sizes and formats. They told me it started when we upgraded to v5. The workaround so far has been to change all file textures to .iff and to keep tabs on their size.

I haven't had enough experience with the problem yet to add anything further.