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RogsCra
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May 31, 2018
Question

AE over utilizing RAM

  • May 31, 2018
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I gave AE all but four gigs of RAM but my PC would get effectively crash so I bumped its resources down by two making it not allowed to use six gigs. However when importing files or just general use I notice that It goes up to 96% or more even though idle, my PC only uses 2.2 gigs. As well, when importing, my C drive the drive that has AE installed gets maxed to 100% whenever I import (its a ssd). The hard drive importing which is much slower than the SSD is not affected at all. Im primarily writing this because AE causes major glitching and crashing throughout my system whenever I use it and my goal is to not allow it to max any part of my system (except maybe in the rendering process). Please help!

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      Warren Heaton
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      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 31, 2018

      Some general rules of thumb for AE:

      • If possible, give AE 2GB of RAM per processor core. 
      • Set the Disk Cache to a large and fast hard drive.  Ideally this is a dedicated drive or partition, but isn't necessary.  You may have noticed that AE chooses your boot drive and sets the minimum disk cache file to 10% of that' drive's capacity.

      Are you getting insufficient memory error in AE?  It's certainly possible to have an animation that's so complex that more physical RAM is needed.

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      RogsCraAuthor
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      May 31, 2018

      I had thay error once and my boot drive is an ssd so would it still be better to set the cache drive to a hardrive? I also have 8 cores ans 16 threads so that would mean 16 gb or ram isnt enough. Im just wondering why its maxes my ssd and goes over the RAM amount i give it which leads to locked a system or crashes.

      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 31, 2018

      Things should work okay from the SSD drive, but try to free up as much storage space on it as possible.

      If your system supports more RAM, I'd add it.

        Mylenium
        Mylenium
        Legend
        May 31, 2018

        Aside from the fact that you haven't told us anything meaningful and not provided critical info like system specs, what do you expect? You are forcing a program that by its very nature very RAM-dependent to starve. inevitably the more it suffocates the more prone it will be to unnecessary crashes, bugs and issues notwithstanding. You basically get what you asked for. Your whole approach simply doesn't make any sense at all.

        Mylenium

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        RogsCraAuthor
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        May 31, 2018

        To start off, I gave the only meaningful system specs, that I have a SSD and a HDD and 16gb of ram.

        2nd, AE runs better when I restrict its RAM.

        3rd, AE no matter what RAM allocation I give it will exceed the amount.

        4th, I gave the nature of my error so I did provide a meaningful base that you could have helped with

        P.S. As a request for the future and people you comment on, don't comment unless you have something useful to say, and don't be an asshole throughout your comment.

          Dave_LaRonde
          Dave_LaRonde
          Inspiring
          May 31, 2018

          Operating system version?  Precise AE version?  Video card specs? 

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