[SOLVED] Memory Leak?

[jesse.art]

Not sure if this is an OS X or Painter issue but I figured I'd post in case others were experiencing the same issue.

I was in my happy place just painting away with SP 1.4.1.761 when my Mac came to a crawl. I noticed the ram was completely full. Interesting as I have 64GB's of it. Painter was using over 45GB's of ram. Yikes.

[Froyok]

How heavy is your Substance Painter project ?
How many texture set do you have ?

I have honestly never reached more than 4/5 GB or Ram.
Maybe its a leak, but I will need more information.

[jesse.art]

It seems SP usually uses about 5-6GB of ram when working on this project. That project has about 6 or 7 texture sets with 4 or 5 2K maps each.

[Froyok]

We have identified a possible memory leak (see https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php?topic=5821.msg28222#new ). Since you have a log ram I guess you were able to open your project and paint of it.

If you save your project (under a new name, just to be safe) and re-open it after closing painter, does Painter eat again a lot of ram ?

[jesse.art]

I'm working on the same project file now and haven't experienced the issue again. As suggested I'll back up the file.

I have activity monitor open and am keeping an eye on the ram usage as I work.

I'll let you know if it happens again.

[Froyok]

We identified the "leak" : one of our internal update system is consuming a lot of ram in certain situations, but once the process is done, you will never get the update again (if you saved the project). So you are all good now

[jesse.art]

Thanks a lot