inukcad Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Rooting around the hood of my Macbook I saw this while trying to resolve what's become a painfully slow drawing process. Zoom lags, slow commands etc. Is 16TB a normal figure ? Quote Link to comment
Charlie_P Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) No doubt I'll be corrected on this but I seem to remember that 16 Tb is the maximum addressable memory under Leopard. In other words VW has cornered the market in theoretical available memory (even if it's not actually there). This sounds like a recurrence of the memory leak that happened occasionally under v12 - although 2009 is a very different animal. There have been a number of posts reporting the odd go-slow in 2009 so this would seem to link up to a memory management problem as you are describing. It'd be interesting to see if others who are having the problem have similar memory figures. inukcad got the data from Activity Monitor (in the utilities folder). Open Activity monitor main window, select Vectorworks and click inspect. My version of 2008 is running at 312 Mb shared memory at the moment. Edited January 21, 2009 by Charlie_P Quote Link to comment
M.CH Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Do you get the same figure after a restart? Is it the same figure with all files? If so submit a bug to NNA Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 No, the 16TB is something strange. I get Virtual Private Memory of about 1.43 GB with a simple drawing open. Quote Link to comment
inukcad Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 It's the same after restart and with different files. The 16TB figures appear randomly and briefly, then settles down to reasonable figure. I've watched the figures while working, the figure doesn't seem to be affected by operations. It just appears. None of my drawings are particularly complex. I've sent NNA support an email I guess an formal Bug Reprt would be more appropriate. Enjoying the podcasts Pat. Cheers. Quote Link to comment
MullinRJ Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Actually, it says you have 16,777,216 TB, meaning you are looking at ~16.8 Million Terabytes, or 16 Exabytes. (exa = 10^18) That's a BIGGA BYTE. (Not Normal) Raymond Quote Link to comment
inukcad Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 holy crap you're right....didn't notice. No wonder there's smoke coming out of my speakers :sick: Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Hey look, I have one of those too...wonder what it means? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 You're not alone. http://www.google.com/search?q=16%2C777%2C216.00+TB&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Quote Link to comment
inukcad Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 So it seems.... Quote Link to comment
M.CH Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Its an issue with activity monitor, when I checked Photoshop the VW stats stabilised, and matched those of PS Quote Link to comment
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