So I’m working on this file which has really weird RAM consumption. The file itself is running really smoothly (with some exceptions that I’ll explain later), but Blender tells me it’s only using 850mb of RAM, while my PC sees it as 14Gb!
The file’s status bar:
My task manager:
Here’s for the weird stuff:
-I did purge the file of all unused files, and it’s not packed.
-My Un-do is set to 256, which never caused me any issues before.
-Copying and pasting any object makes Blender freeze for ten seconds, as well as switching the render visibility of individual objects, but nothing else does that in the file, even my Cycle preview is almost real time.
And THEN this morning, without doing anything specific, the RAM consumption gradually dropped to 900mb for no reason over the the course of 30 minutes! I re-opened the file since and now it’s back at 14Gb of RAM, and it’s not dropping this time.
I do have to copy and paste some (pretty simple) meshes for design iteration, and the fact it’s freezing each time is really slowing my work pace.
I don’t understand what’s going on, I’d appreciate any help on my case if someone knows about this…
Edit:
Since making this topic I’ve been adding more meshes and that’s the RAM now:
And again, same file an hour later:
I’m speechless
It’s still lagging when I copy-paste and turn on/off render visibility though.
