NX3 / Windoze...halting process w/out killing

[Shadowspawn]

Folks,

How does one stop, or interrupt, the current process without killing the UG session? I know how in unix, but am at a loss with windows... any suggestions?

I have a process that seems to of hung up, and now I'm outta memory and using loads of swap space. My goal is to interrupt the process, save off the file, and then reboot and continue on

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?

 

[fgbrender]

Unfortunatly, if you don't have the Stop button you're out of luck.

Just out of curiosity, what are you doing that causes you to run out of memory? I've spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting memory problems and have some tips to avoid them, depending on what you are trying to accomplish.

 

[Dawson70]

I'm also curious what to do in this situation. Even having the stop button available doesn't make it actually stop. It just greys out the dialgue box and continues crunching away into infinity. I think the old command was Alt/Shift/L but it's been a while since that worked.

Is there a way to increase the memory before swap is used? I have 2 gigs and in the information box it always shows a number around 500 megs or less available when windows displays a much larger number.

A co-worker had the same problem as SS last week, and all he could do was close out and lose all his changes.

 

[Bugie]

Does the Windoze 3G switch offer any Help?

 

[scotty7]

We've been playing with the 3GB switch in XP. It does let you load more data - generally blowing up at about 2.7GB, as opposed to 1.7GB. However, on a network distribution it was very unreliable - some boxes wouldn't boot to 3GB, others, physically identical (supposedly) and with the same XP image worked fine. And the dual processor boxes weren't very happy either.
For interest, NX4 has a warning that comes up when getting close to the memory limit, so you "may" be able to stop what you are doing and save before it all falls apart.

 

[Gabrielwang]

I was used to exhaust my physically memory when I update some view in the drafting.Maybe we will be happier when we use the 64 bit system.Then we can enjoy 2T's(2000G) memory with our computer.Thar's fantastic.


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[mjcole]

Shadowspawn,

My advice is to save often and make backup copies of your files, I usually save before doing any complex features that might hang up the system. I've done this a lot and when windows or UG screws up I can just End Task without any regrets.

Windows is too legacy ridden and in my opinion they should start over and get rid of all the problems that their operating system contiinually causes. I remember having trouble getting windows to recognize a 160Gig drive because windows will only recognize up to 128 Gigs by default

It would be a good Idea to submit an enhancement request to include an icon to stop the current UG process, similar to Pro/E's stop button which is always available.

Michael

 

[Shadowspawn]

All,

Sorry for the delay in responding, been a bit busy around here lately.

In short, I've only got 1M of memory on my laptop so I was initially thinking this was the root cause and using this info in my request for more. I've hung up on numerous instances (enough to be a nuisance yet not enough to scream "I can't do my job...") doing all kinds of things from editing guide strings, extrusion entities, editing a trim surface, sketch, datm distance, fit, whatever... At least for me, I don't think it's the operation in UG so much as I'm just maxing resources on this laptop.

It's a shame Windows doesn't have some of the functionality that a Unix system has, such as the ability to manipulate a particular process (thinking of the kill switches). I think mjcole is right though... We'd have a lot more success getting a stop button implemented in UG a lot sooner than getting the functionality implemented in Windows.



Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?

 

[looslib]

Checkout some of the process utilities at

http://www.sysinternals.com.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

 

[Dawson70]

Does PsKill v1.11 break the lock in UG? It's the only one listed on that site that looks like a possible solution.