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. >> >> -- >> Deke Kincaid >> Creative Specialist >> The Foundry >> Skype: dekekincaid >> Tel: (310) 399 4555 - Mobile: (310) 883 4313 >> Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> 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? >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> John Mangia >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Nuke-users mailing list >>> >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Nuke-users mailing list >>> > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> John Mangia >>> >>> 908.616.1796 >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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