fatal error : out of memory

[Aerevia]

When trying to simplify a file, I get this error after RAM usage goes up to 34GB using amd64 version on Windows (tried with windows 10 and windows server 2012).

runtime: out of memory: cannot allocate 2359296-byte block (34358820864 in use)
fatal error: out of memory

It crashes way faster when using 386 version.
Is this a RAM problem ? I have 64GB.

[jonnenauha]

No, its my programs problem. I should implement it so that the full file does not have to be in memory when parsing input or writing output. Right now the implementation was naive and I did not think of files bigger than what most people have for memory. I don't know when I would want to implement this. It would probably be some kind of option to use disk instead of mem, to now slow down the "normal" users.

[calonx]

FWIW, I'm hitting the same out-of-memory issue when running your script on a mere 74.1 MB .obj file.

I didn't see what the total memory usage was when I hit that error, but considering that I've got 64 GB as well... On the second run, I cancelled it at ~26 GB memory in use (55+ million page-faults for only a few minutes of runtime).

Never mind! I only thought I cancelled it -- turns out it was still chugging away. 😁