u/SadSpaceGuy

Currently running a SymPy script to calculate some insanely complex equations (that I can’t do by hand) for research. I kept crashing this PC (that has 96GB of RAM) by maxing out the virtual memory (330ish GB) every time the script ran.
I eventually manually raised the pagefile maximum size to 3TB split evenly (1.5TB) across two partitions on a 8TB SSD and got it to not fail. It has currently stabilized at ~1.3TB of committed virtual memory with a ~1TB pagefile on just one of the two partitions (increased since taking WizTree photo).

Just curious if anyone else has ever reached such extreme RAM usage before?

*Sorry for not using screenshots like a sensible person, I just don’t feel likely trying to copy them across to my phone to post this.

UPDATE (8/18): It’s the next day now and it looks like the calculation has gotten over this little RAM hump and calmed down to a much more reasonable ~30GB in use (~20GB belonging specifically to the SymPy script).

Currently running a SymPy script to calculate some insanely complex equations (that I can’t do by hand) for research. I kept crashing this PC (that has 96GB of RAM) by maxing out the virtual memory (330ish GB) every time the script ran.
I eventually manually raised the pagefile maximum size to 3TB split evenly (1.5TB) across two partitions on a 8TB SSD and got it to not fail. It has currently stabilized at ~1.3TB of committed virtual memory with a ~1TB pagefile on just one of the two partitions (increased since taking WizTree photo).

Just curious if anyone else has ever reached such extreme RAM usage before?

*Sorry for not using screenshots like a sensible person, I just don’t feel likely trying to copy them across to my phone to post this.

UPDATE (8/18): It’s the next day now and it looks like the calculation has gotten over this little RAM hump and calmed down to a much more reasonable ~30GB in use (~20GB belonging specifically to the SymPy script).

UPDATE #2 (8/18): RAM usage is actually steadily climbing upward, currently at 65GB. Maybe it’ll find its way back to 1TB+ eventually.

UPDATE #3 (8/18): Up to 150GB now. I’m curious to see if it will have gone up more by the time I check tomorrow or if it’ll collapse back down again.