"Windows out of memory" opening a Rhino file with objects imported in GH

since today when I try to open a Rhino 4 file in which there are curves associated to the relative Parameter in Grasshopper, the files don't open, I tried with few of them, and the error message says that Windows is out of memory!!! (but there is plenty of...) in Rhino 5 I can open the file and the GH definition works. Some hints or suggestions? (I MUST work out a Rhino 4 file) Recently I just installed few GH plug-ins or one for Rhino VSR WebGL Export.

Thank you

Francesco

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Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on November 7, 2011 at 7:49am

If you have rhino 5 64 bits on windows 7 64 bits, you can fully use all the memory (unless you have more than 192 GB ... or using premium or basic).

But Rhino 4 cant deal with more than 4GB (or something like that), even on a 64 bits system.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 7, 2011 at 9:01am

Hi Francesco,

when you open the file in Rhino5, how much memory is used according to the Windows Task Manager?

You can lock the solver prior to opening a file, which should prevent extra data from being created. That way you might be able to find which component is responsible for the memory overflow and fix it.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Francesco De Luca on November 8, 2011 at 6:58am

Hello David,

well the GH definition is very simple, so I understand your suggestion, but it is not the point to lock the solver saving the GH file when closing it and unlock "by component" reopening the file. Anyway when I open the file in Rhino 5 opening as well the GH definition the memory usage is 1K of Memory (Private Working Set) (Win7 64). I was able to "solve" the problem saving from Rhino 5 to Rhino 4. When I did it a first time there was a warning message in Rhino 5 that it was not possible to save some part of the file for the V4 (now I don't remember what) but today I did the same and 5 saved in 4 even without the warning message, and 4 opened the file that otherwise was not able to open directly, and the original file was created in 4. Wierd stuff...

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