Galapagos ... assign more memory?

Hi!

This might be a Rhino 5 thing in general, or Gh/Galapagos... I don't really know.

I tried to calculate a quite heavy solution via Galapagos and the PC is only using half of its memory (4GB) currently of total 8, while having a CPU load somewhere around 12% only. Can I assign more memory/power to speed things up? And how? :)

And tips or links welcome. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by dvdrbls on May 2, 2013 at 5:25pm

hello, just curious, are you using 64 bit windows, and 64 bit rhino 5?

Permalink Reply by Christian D on May 2, 2013 at 5:54pm

I tried it on a machine with both 64 installed, yes.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 3, 2013 at 3:39am

You cannot. Rhino and Grasshopper and Galapagos will use all the memory they need. Eventually they may use more than is allowed by Windows and the program will crash. On 64-Rhino5 this will be a long way off but it's definitely possible on 32-bit Rhino.

Grasshopper and Galapagos use only a single core. If you have 8 cores then only one of them will be churning at full speed while Galapagos is running. 100% / 8 cores = 12.5%

Whether or not to start supporting multi-core solutions in Grasshopper is a decision that will have to be made for GH 2.0

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 3, 2013 at 3:40am

Incidentally, why do you want Galapagos to use more memory? What should this extra memory be accomplishing?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Christian D on May 4, 2013 at 6:00am

Ok. Rhino and Grasshopper and Galapagos will use all the memory they need. --- I didn't know. It was running slow, I though they may have been restricted.

Thanks for clearing things up a bit.

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