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AE over utilizing RAM

Explorer ,
May 30, 2018 May 30, 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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LEGEND ,
May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018

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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.

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Explorer ,
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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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.

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LEGEND ,
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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

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Explorer ,
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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Thanks for requesting more specific items. I have windows 10, the latest ae cc 2018, and a gtx 1070ti.

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Community Expert ,
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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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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May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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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.

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Community Expert ,
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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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.

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Explorer ,
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

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Freeing up the space would help speeds a bit but i fail to understand why its 100% on my task manager for basic AE stuff.

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Participant ,
Jun 01, 2018 Jun 01, 2018

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Did you try running a write/read test speed on your disks ?

Aja have a good one :

AJA System Test: Drive Performance Stats You Can TrustAccurately test your system performance using ...

would have to dig further but logic says there is no need to have an SSD if you have a "bottleneck" in your system (motherboard ?)

If such bottleneck existed on your system, i guess it would make sense for AE to request more RAM to temporary store the data it creates.

Just guessing here.... Makes sense ?

Good luck

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Explorer ,
Jun 01, 2018 Jun 01, 2018

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User benchmark says its performing well for the SSD. I moved cache to my hdd and gave it 100 gbs and it seems to be a lot more stable now and the drives are no longer being maxed.

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Participant ,
Jun 01, 2018 Jun 01, 2018

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Nice to hear that !

Off course adding more ram to your system would not hurt...

But just in case I remember using about 10 years ago a small freeware which purged my ram at defined time intervals.

It obviously kills your preview, but why not if it keeps your system from crashing ?

Lots of those nowadays.... Just try a search and you'll find it !

Good luck

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