Processor utilization

[Tim Kolb]

Nobody has any ideas on this one?

I just did a fresh restart before rendering and that seemed to get the system back in the groove. I would have to assume that the most likely issue must be RAM fragmentation…?

Is anybody else seeing this much RAM fragmentation in CS3?

Other ideas?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

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[Darby Edelen]

[Tim Kolb] “I’m using AE CS3 on a brand new BOXX-built 7500 series, dual-dual core Opteron…4 Gigs RAM…XP Pro SP2, etc, etc”

It might have something to do with your ‘render multiple frames simultaneously’ and ‘memory & cache’ settings. If you have 4GB of RAM and 4 processors to work with, you should be able to set your RAM cache to use around 1GB (you should probably use a little less to leave some RAM for your system and avoid memory related issues) and use all 4 processors to render multiple frames simultaneously.

Note that it takes some time when you start a render to start up the additional instances of AE’s render engine, but the render should move quicker after this initial ~20 second lag.

If you don’t have the ‘render multiple frames simultaneously’ option enabled then AE can still use multiple cores/processors to render within one frame, but AE will not be able to use as much of the RAM as it could with this option enabled.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA