Do you have 4GB RAM? Are you crashing?

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Forgive my ignorance, Anders, but what is “paging”?

Best

Harry.

[Mike Parfit]

It’s very good to know others have this problem. I mean, I wouldn’t wish this on others, but at least if more than one person experiences it we can call it to Apple’s attention as a bug, not some solitary machine.

I also would like to know if removing the capture card — Blackmagic or Kona — helps the rendering problem. In my system it does. Now I routinely remove my Kona 3 if I want to do an overnight render and so far — probably 20 long renders — that’s always worked. Anyone else been able to do this workaround?

Thanks,

Mike

[Walter Biscardi]

[Mike Parfit] “I would like to know if people who have systems with 4GB of memory are crashing more than others.”

We have 4GB RAM in both of our primary systems (Mac Pro Quad 3.0 and PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5) with few crash issues. Maybe once or twice every two weeks.

Our older system, G5 Dual 2.0, has 3GB RAM with almost no crashes.

All running Studio 2 with latest OS, QT, etc….

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[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Mike,

My crashing problems continue, usually associated with rendering. I was wondering if you had found any cure for this yet…?

best wishes,

Harry

[Anders Haavie]

After installing another 4 gig (2×2 in each riser like Apple recommends) my mac feels ALOT faster. However, the crashing is still there. Haven’t done very big and complex projects yet, so it might actually be better than it used to, but it is still crashing during renders. Too bad. Apple need to fix this now.

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thanks for the reply Anders.

Best

harry

[Mike Parfit]

Hi, again,

Thanks for all the responses. I have not solved the problem. I’ve posted a new thread asking a different question, this time about internal raid arrays. I’d be curious to know if any of you who are having crashes have internal arrays, so if you do, could you respond on the new thread?

Thanks!

Mike

[Steven Sanders]

Hi everybody,

I’ve been having the same problems. 8-core, blackmagic, HD prorez, first 4, then 8 gigs of RAM. Only we narrowed the problem down to the capture card.
We changed the plugins, we changed the MAC (from 8-core to Quad-core), we changed the RAM (from 4 to 8 – with 8 all of a sudden I had realtime downconversion to SD when a 3 way CC was applied), we reinstalled pretty much everything… always a crash after a relative short while of rendering.
So then we took out the capture card.
No problems
Put it back in: crash
We did this with an 8-core and a quad-core, with native plugins and third party plugins.
So I guess that nails it down to one bad guy, doesn’t it?
The only problem is the previous posts of people saying they got the same problems with an AJA card…
So the problems are related to the cards, or the slots, or the way FCP 6.0.1 is handeling these cards, or the OS, I don’t know… anyway: no card, no problem.
We’ll keep you posted, cuz the investigation isn’t over yet.

StvN

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Since Apple replaced the main logic board or whatever the main brain is called, crashes have greatly reduced. The problem of disappearing render files continues, however.

But on my 8 core, once Apple gave it a new brain, the situaion improved enormously.

Best

Harry

PS. 8 core with 4 gigs RAM

[Mike Parfit]

Sounds just like what happens to me, except I have the Kona 3. I take it out and I can render all night. But also, when I removed an internal raid array, most of the crashes went away, too. However, when I put the three disks back in as separate disks, the crashes returned! But only, of course, with the Kona card in the machine. It has become routine for me to remove the card when I have to do a long render. I can’t imagine that the contacts on the card can survive a lot of removing and replacing.

Mysterious, but it certainly seems that something in the OS or the machine is limping along when it comes to these capture cards.

Let us know if you find out anything, as I will do as well.

Good luck.

Mike