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Subject:Batch Processing Memory Leak Posted by: Lance Lenehan Date:8/10/2010 6:00:24 PM Hi, All. I am running a batch process on around 87,000 WAV files (87 folders of 1000 files each) in SF10b on Windows 7. The batch is performing 2 processes, Trim and then Normalise, and then saving the files as MP3. The script typically gets through about 16,000 files or so, and then crashes with an error - no specific error message - just that an internal error has occurred - windows 7 then brings up the crash report dialog for forwarding the error report to Microsoft. I have been running the batch in lots of 15,000 (15 directories with 1,000 files in each directory) to work around the issue. Using the task manager I can see that there is a memory leak with SF, and SF is accumulating around 10MB of RAM usage for every 1000 or so files. Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone can suggest another work around. Ideally I would like to process the lot in one go, without having to revisit the workstation and process then next batch every few hours. ... regards lance.
Subject:RE: Batch Processing Memory Leak Reply by: roblesinge Date:8/12/2010 10:03:45 AM Let's not mention that SF 10 Pro takes 1000% more memory just sitting idle than SF 8 used to. I think we're all hoping Sony is taking a long hard look at memory handling as they prepare updates. Right now it handles memory poorly, won't remove temp files after closing no matter what you tell it to do, crashes randomly, etc.. It's disastrous, at best. Hopefully they're addressing the problem, but it doesn't shock me that you're having this issue. --Rob.
Subject:RE: Batch Processing Memory Leak Reply by: Lance Lenehan Date:8/30/2010 5:23:59 PM Follow up: I logged a support query and received excellent service from Whitney in Customer Service. She led me through some tests and configurations, and we confirmed it as an issue with SF10. The test with SF9 managed to process all files without a problem. I was informed that they hope to have a fix in the next update of SF10 - and in the meantime - I should continue to use SF9. regards, Lance.

Subject:Batch Processing Memory Leak

Date:8/10/2010 6:00:24 PM

Hi, All.

I am running a batch process on around 87,000 WAV files (87 folders of 1000 files each) in SF10b on Windows 7. The batch is performing 2 processes, Trim and then Normalise, and then saving the files as MP3. The script typically gets through about 16,000 files or so, and then crashes with an error - no specific error message - just that an internal error has occurred - windows 7 then brings up the crash report dialog for forwarding the error report to Microsoft.

I have been running the batch in lots of 15,000 (15 directories with 1,000 files in each directory) to work around the issue. Using the task manager I can see that there is a memory leak with SF, and SF is accumulating around 10MB of RAM usage for every 1000 or so files. Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone can suggest another work around. Ideally I would like to process the lot in one go, without having to revisit the workstation and process then next batch every few hours. ...

regards lance.

Subject:RE: Batch Processing Memory Leak

Reply by: roblesinge

Date:8/12/2010 10:03:45 AM

Let's not mention that SF 10 Pro takes 1000% more memory just sitting idle than SF 8 used to. I think we're all hoping Sony is taking a long hard look at memory handling as they prepare updates. Right now it handles memory poorly, won't remove temp files after closing no matter what you tell it to do, crashes randomly, etc.. It's disastrous, at best.

Hopefully they're addressing the problem, but it doesn't shock me that you're having this issue.

--Rob.

Subject:RE: Batch Processing Memory Leak

Reply by: Lance Lenehan

Date:8/30/2010 5:23:59 PM

Follow up:
I logged a support query and received excellent service from Whitney in Customer Service. She led me through some tests and configurations, and we confirmed it as an issue with SF10. The test with SF9 managed to process all files without a problem. I was informed that they hope to have a fix in the next update of SF10 - and in the meantime - I should continue to use SF9.
regards,
Lance.