Will more RAM fix the “Power house” error message?

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Will more RAM fix the “Power house” error message?

Posted by Ola Haldor voll on October 13, 2011 at 8:55 am

Simply put, I’ve yet to have a RED project without problems upon rendering.
Some times during playback I get the message about some error with ‘power house’.

When I start rendering, you can bet the same message appears every few minutes, which in turn produces black frames.

I’ve asked a few times, and I see others have too. But I have yet to see a solution for it.

I just spoke to a dop today, and he’ll be shooting on the Epic, and I can’t say I’m looking forward to it if I’m gonna have loads of error messages all over the screen while he’s in the session with me.

Blase Theodore replied 14 years, 6 months ago 7 Members · 16 Replies
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Sascha Haber
October 13, 2011 at 9:03 am

No, I have 24GB and its running out of memory three times a day.

porting Resolve to proper 64 bit would
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Request noted , yes ? 🙂

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Ola Haldor voll
October 13, 2011 at 9:22 am

Ouch..

So this “Power House” error is Resolve telling me in a very abstract way that it’s running out of RAM? It’s not tied up to RED in specific?
Margus Voll
October 13, 2011 at 9:32 am

Have you tested with more ram and Lion ?

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Ola Haldor voll
October 13, 2011 at 9:40 am

I’ve got the stock 6GB the Mac came with. And yes I’m on Lion, 10.7.1 at the moment.
I haven’t tested RED in a while and have been steering clear of RED projects cause of these issues.

I’ll give it a go later today when I’m done onlining an episode.
Margus Voll
October 13, 2011 at 9:53 am

Adding ram should be pretty simple as you gan buy it from any company that sells ECC versions.

I wonder how long is your sequence as this may also play a role there maybe ?

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Margus

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Ola Haldor voll
October 13, 2011 at 10:23 am

I had someone breathing down my neck (you know who you are 😉 ) so I took a break in the onlining.

I rendered a 5 min sequence in 4,5K without even a hickup. Looks like the issue will be Resolve(d!) in the update coming soon.
Margus Voll
October 13, 2011 at 12:17 pm

I wonder still if you can meter memory usage ?

I have also 6 gig machine but non of the 4,5 k material at the moment. Epic stuff i mean.

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Lee Niederkofler
October 13, 2011 at 12:53 pm

I have similar problems and I have a big 90min Red docu coming next week.

I hope the update is coming soon!?
I’d really need this to be fixed until I’ve the dp and director siiting behind me…

Thanks!
Ola Haldor voll
October 13, 2011 at 1:21 pm

I’m using an app called iStat Menus, this will add icons to the menu bar which will tell you about the system and its performance.
Blase Theodore
October 13, 2011 at 4:26 pm

If I was to guess wildly, I would guess wildly that the dev team is already aware of this issue and working to solve it.

In the meantime, don’t run anything more than resolve on a reboot, and reboot before render. Not 100% effective, but more effective than not doing it.

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