sharpie Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 I am working on the Pinboard tutorial (the one found on Techimage that shows how they did the cool effect in XMen).. In the beginning of stage 5 of the tutorial I do as it suggests and do a test render by right clicking on the render icon and chosing Mantra. Up pops the mplay window. When I close the mplay window however and try to go back to Houdini I find that its hanging. Looking in the taskmanager in Windows you can see mplay creeping up in memory bit by bit, bloating. I can't kill Houdini until I kill mplay. This gets pretty tedious obviously. I'm running a Compaq Evo 800W with a Radeon 9000 w/64MB and Houdini Apprentece edition. I've tried turning off all of the hardware options for mplay, and messing with all its options, but to no avail. Any environment variables I should have set or workarounds for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 are you closing the mplay window while it's still rendering or after it's finished? I seem to recall a bunch of posts on this topic over at the Side effects forum...you may want to do a quick search there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpie Posted June 3, 2003 Author Share Posted June 3, 2003 Well when I close the mplay app the image appears to be fully rendered. I wondered this myself and thought maybe it was rendering the other frames so I limited the range explicitely to 1 to 1 frame, and still it crept up. When I try a default new scene and add a sphere, it renders in nearly the same time and when it appears done I close it with no problem. I tried searching the SideFX forum but didn't find much on mplay, do you mean the listserv archives? I haven't tried that yet.. Any other ideas welcome, badly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Hey... I've found this too. Recently I had about 6 rendered images in mplay which I was scrubbing between and mplay was taking up 1.5Gb of RAM. It was nasty... I think we should inform SESI of this. I was waiting to see if it happened again before reporting it, but if its happening to other people then it must be a leak (good logic eh? ) marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 bah...you've got 1.5GB+ of RAM..?.. quit yer sqwakin' ...looks like benjamin (sharpie) posted at SESI already.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpie Posted June 3, 2003 Author Share Posted June 3, 2003 Yeah I posted over at SESI already, I wish I had kept the same username (benjamin == sharpie) but I registered them sometime apart I believe and forgot... kinda makes it all confusing.. Btw, I have 500MB on my machine, but I never have the leak get that far, afterall I'm rendering a lowresish frame. It seems to start leaking past 15MB and goes upward until I stop it.. Who knows how far it could go.. Only the owl knows.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpie Posted June 3, 2003 Author Share Posted June 3, 2003 Btw, is there something I can use in the meantime besides mplay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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