why is AE rendering with RAM – and what can i do when AE stops rendering because of RAM capacity overload?

[Eduardo Gellner]

Hey there, i got exactly the same problem:

I render and after 10-20 seconds of time-ramped DV-footage AE says the following and the normal render queue looks like this:

http://www.eduardogellner.de/ae.png
http://www.eduardogellner.de/ae1.png

Settings are standard, RAM is 2 GB. Reason is, RAM is full, but i do NOT understand why it doesnt write it on disk.

Even Disk Cache is enabled and so on.

[Eduardo Gellner]

Solution: (found in another topic here not adressing this question)

Press SHIFT while entering Preferences, go down to “secret”, enable purging every X frames (depending on your comps and ram) and – smile!