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I am on os 10.5 and vw2008 sp1 and i am finding that while rendering a relatively simple viewport in hidden line rendering (one which rendered in 12.5.2 and vw2008 on os 10.4.10 ok) the active memory usage shoots through the roof (up toward 2 gig) and then vw punts me out of the application saying 'insufficient memory to complete task' or something similar.

i am also finding that the longer i use vw2008 sp1 during a given session, the amount of active memory usage inches up toward 2 gig which never happened in os 10.4.10.

i am on a macbook pro, 2.33 c2d, 3g ram, osx 10.5

anyone else had similar experiences?

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it appears that the only rendering mode i could find this in is 'hidden line'.

this is a fairly crucial part of my work flow and i am dead in the water without hidden line viewports.

has anyone had the same problems? has nna found these problems as well?

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Thanks Andrew. I did send the file already, so hopefully it will help. For what it's worth, most rendering modes seems to have trouble to a certain extent, but the one that had the most problem was Hidden Line.

This is especially the case when cutting Section Viewports.

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This problem has been driving me crazy for some time. With the amount of memory that I have (10 GB) it is very frustrating when an application says it is out of memory.

The memory leaks in VW2008 are very serious. Memory grows every time you render something and is not fully released. After a while VW either crashes or you get messages that indicate that you have run out of memory, or you see nothing until you look at your console log and VW is trying to fill up your disk with messages like this:

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM VectorWorks[541] VectorWorks(541,0xf42ce000) malloc: *** mmap(size=27840512) failed (error code=12)

*** error: can't allocate region

*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM VectorWorks[541] VectorWorks(541,0xf4350000) malloc: *** mmap(size=27840512) failed (error code=12)

*** error: can't allocate region

*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM VectorWorks[541] VectorWorks(541,0xf43d2000) malloc: *** mmap(size=27840512) failed (error code=12)

*** error: can't allocate region

*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] VectorWorks(541,0xf42ce000) malloc: *** mmap(size=27840512) failed (error code=12)

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] *** error: can't allocate region

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] VectorWorks(541,0xf4350000) malloc: *** mmap(size=27840512) failed (error code=12)

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] *** error: can't allocate region

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] VectorWorks(541,0xf43d2000) malloc: *** mmap(size=27840512) failed (error code=12)

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] *** error: can't allocate region

6/21/08 3:29:07 AM [0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

6/21/08 3:32:01 AM com.apple.launchd[138] ([0x0-0x5f05f].net.nemetschek.vectorworks[541]) Exited: Terminated

I had to kill it (the last line).

My workflow is totally messed up. I have to monitor memory whenever I am updating viewports and quit and restart as soon as memory usage gets to about 1.5 GB (sometimes lower).

I have submitted a bug report, and except for the comment above, I have never heard anything about this from NNA.

Love the program, hate this problem.

RonMan

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