we run both Nuke and Digital Fusion at my last place and this was a issue
except DigitalFusion gave us control over memory on the program and on
individual composites. So is it possible to control this in Nuke the same
way? It was a preference or something.

A.


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:14 PM, J Bills <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it's more of an OS problem and less a prob with Nuke.  Linux does
> a lot of background caching, which can fight for resources.  Would it help
> to clear the page cache and reclaim some RAM?  I think that's what IT was
> doing at my last job.
>
> shell> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> (as root)
>
> You could set it up to run once every so often if this is the fix you were
> looking for.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Turn off aggressive caching.  Also increasing your disk cache will help.
>>  The default of 10gb is way too small for most productions.
>>
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>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:03 AM, John Mangia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Nope, Linux for years and at different facilities.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Michael Garrett <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Are you on Windows?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 27 August 2014 11:36, John Mangia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> This has been an issue for years and I'm surprised it hasn't been
>>> >> addressed.  Nuke constantly sucks up all available ram, caching
>>> >> anything that was viewed and not releasing it from memory.  All memory
>>> >> related settings in preferences are at their default values yet I
>>> >> still find myself having to dump my cache and buffers 100 times a day
>>> >> or having to relaunch a crashed nuke session.  Is it too far fetched
>>> >> for nuke to keep track of what it's keeping in ram and smartly release
>>> >> the oldest data?
>>> >>
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