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From: Eiros Zamora, Juan (j.eiros-zamora14_at_imperial.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 10:15:34 CST

The second option worked perfectly.

Many thanks!

Juan
On 9 Feb 2016, at 11:09, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com<mailto:akohlmey_at_gmail.com>> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Eiros Zamora, Juan
<j.eiros-zamora14_at_imperial.ac.uk<mailto:j.eiros-zamora14_at_imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear VMD experts,

I’m getting a memory error when trying to render an image with Tachyon.

My computer specs are:

OS X El Capitan
Version 10.11.1
Processor 4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395 2048 MB

And I’m using the MacOS X OpenGL (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X (10.4.7
or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle)) VMD installation.

I’m trying to obtain a high-resolution picture for a poster so I’m using the
following command:

"/Applications/VMD1.9.2.app/Contents/vmd/tachyon_MACOSXX86" -aasamples 12 %s
-format TARGA -o %s.tga -res 7680 4320


And the error I’m getting is:

vmd > Info) Rendering current scene to 'vmdscene.dat' ...
Info) Tachyon file generation finished
Info) Executing post-render cmd
'"/Applications/VMD1.9.2.app/Contents/vmd/tachyon_MACOSXX86" -aasamples 12
vmdscene.dat -format TARGA -o vmdscene.dat.tga -res 7680 4320' ...
Tachyon Parallel/Multiprocessor Ray Tracer Version 0.99.1
Copyright 1994-2014, John E. Stone <john.stone_at_gmail.com<mailto:john.stone_at_gmail.com>>
------------------------------------------------------------
Scene Parsing Time: 10.0596 seconds
Scene contains 8715544 objects.
tachyon_MACOSXX86(86782,0xa2d6d000) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=35184640)
failed (error code=3)

Is this issue again related with the 32-bit build of VMD? Also I’ve tried

very likely. you are limited to a 32-bit address space despite having more RAM.
you can try one of the following things:

- make a copy of the vmdscene.dat file and transfer it to a 64-bit x86
machine and then repeat the raytracking command line, only this time
using the tachyon_LINUXAMD64 executable.

- go to the tachyon homepage and download the source and compile a
custom 64-bit executable for your machine and process the vmdscene.dat
file with it as listed in the console echo.

- reduce number of aasamples and/or size of the resulting image until
the error message goes away and then scale up and postprocess the
image with a suitable program

axel.

googling the tachyon_MACOSXX86(86782,0xa2d6d000) malloc: ***
mach_vm_map(size=35184640) failed (error code=3) error but nothing showed
up.

Thanks for any help on this,

Juan



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College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.