Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5010221 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:00:50 +0100 Received: by mail-ie0-f178.google.com with SMTP id bn7so1672110ieb.37 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:08:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=551+MtKpWlCJz6Z9lF5sUw5E4dIOaqaStiO/7UVZVn0=; b=yretC3bd+AViFnaygJZYcrm/ngG02VMAyUIcwDuVQTR/6TRvrdJjG3tM+lQyZRKaX1 UF0jju6s69aH1RHQmiPia/GvxvDv4BTkKRkNAod+Zzyyg0LbV6FHTUF1v2WhchpFIiEm OV+zZWpB3DGRWMpFYLCDQLzIJ3eYz7hAp28XpbVX2v3EKxvc8v6e2MxZDa+gLiZza1/c cNy5zZ5ncSjkoJkxzkU0+PBv0IZ5E8v9yTKUWZ/raJ6oETb/tRZejUwvru99f6xLgFp1 F8MRrehA4WICWD2a9UtSw+Qe61WyEJ0w5WerYn4AJLP+DRmh/+poTSY1fugS3dDKwsKg kW4Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.180.197 with SMTP id dq5mr3259956igc.22.1363903685913; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.131.202 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:08:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:08:05 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] Pushing MP in AE - 6GB per core From: Todd Kopriva To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Darby, We have tested with 6GB per background process, but we haven't done significant testing above that. The likely worst thing that happens is that you're wasting RAM because the rendering process doesn't need what you're feeding it, so you're unnecessarily taking away from such things as the RAM cache and the OS and other applications.