[jackdaniels83]

Hi all,

when i want to visualize the mesh in patchTool after loading a few patches i get the following massage in the terminal:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

The model is about 1 GB and i have over 6 GB memory in my mashine.

Can someone tell me what is going wrong?

With best regards,

Daniel

[mattijs]

Java needs prespecified the maximum amount of memory it can take. Look at the patchTool script.

(and a warning: PatchTool is not very nice to use)

[jackdaniels83]

Thanks for your help. What tool do you use to extract single patches?

Daniel

[jackdaniels83]

I don't know where to look, can someone tell me where i can change the amount of memory used by patchTool? I am running it on a 64 bit OpenSuse 10.2 system, on the Ubuntu 32 bit system (same machine) i don't have the problem.

Daniel

[jackdaniels83]

Hi all,

can someone please help me? Is there an other open source tool to create patches or how can i fix the problem with PatchTool and it's memory usage?

Regards,

Daniel

[dmoroian]

Hi Daniel,
You may try to use the autoPatch utility, and then rename the generated patches.

I found an old discussion at memory limit, and they show 2 options for the jvm... still seems there are problems. Basically one option is -Xmx4000m, and lets you allocate as much heap as you want (in this case I chose 4000MB).

Dragos

[jackdaniels83]

Thanks for your reply. autoPatch is to primitive, i'm using it together with patchTool, when i leave the patches created by autoPatch (with an angle of 60°) i have around 100. At the other hand i have to group them to calculate forces on a group of patches.

I will try the memory limit thing.

Daniel