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Jack Perkins
OutOfMemoryError: Okay, but WHY?
Mar 19th, 2009, 5:17am  
I keep getting an 'OutOfMemoryError' when running this sketch. As far as I can tell I'm using far less resources than most of my other sketches. I have five simple 'robots' made out of a few boxes each, walking around in 3d.

In other sketches I've maxed out the number of entities past one thousand, with way more internal variables each. Of corse the frame rate suffers but processing never has complained before.

It seems like i'm hitting a weird bug, I went about making this the same way as most of my other 3d sketches, so what's up?


http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=1253

?_? please help my robots desperately need robot medicine !_!
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RickiG
Re: OutOfMemoryError: Okay, but WHY?
Reply #1 - Mar 19th, 2009, 8:35am  
Hi

Have you tried changing the memory allocated for Processing?
In Preferences it is set for 512 MB, you could easily boost it to double that.
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Jack Perkins
Re: OutOfMemoryError: Okay, but WHY?
Reply #2 - Mar 19th, 2009, 9:29am  
I did. Never having this problem before (even with huge sketches with hundreds of objects) I thought it was strange. Appears to be some kind of lower level bug. Someone on open processing left me a comment and the quickest hack seems to be using Rectangles instead of ellipsis.

Problem solved!

Weird, but robots look better with square eyes anyways.
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PhiLho 
Re: OutOfMemoryError: Okay, but WHY?
Reply #3 - Mar 20th, 2009, 3:46pm  
See my answer to Maximum dimensions of ellipse() . Not the same error, but apparently related.
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