Re: [sc-users] Allocating large memsize (in server.options)

[Josh Parmenter <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

by the way - I was able to do 2 without a problem. It was 4 that caused the error below (and I also have 4 GB of Ram).

Josh

On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Josh Parmenter wrote:

> I'm assuming you are doing this with Internal? Can you test with localhost?
> 
> If I allocate too much, I get this:
> 
> Exception in World_New: alloc failed, increase server's memory allocation (e.g. via ServerOptions)
> 
> Also - is this scserver? or is this supernova?
> 
> Is this OS X? Or Linux?
> 
> Josh
> 
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:26 PM, e deleflie wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I'm trying to work out what is the maximum of memory that I can
>> allocate to SuperCollider.... via s.options.memSize
>> 
>> Currently I am allocating 1048576 ... (1 Gig) but that is too little
>> for my purposes. When I double that to 2Gig ... SuperCollider crashes
>> (I'm assuming because there's not enough memory).
>> 
>> When I go halfway, to 1572864 (1.5Gig) SuperCollider crashes again. Is
>> this because it actually allocates 2Gig ... or because I dont even
>> have 1.5 Gig available? (BTW ... I have 2 x 2Gig RAMs)
>> 
>> Etienne
>> 
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