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floworks ERROR: Not enough memory to continue the calculation

floworks ERROR: Not enough memory to continue the calculation

floworks ERROR: Not enough memory to continue the calculation

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Hey folks,

I'm doing some CFD work with Cosmos FloWorks. I can run simple problems without any issues, but when trying larger, computationally intensive operations, FloWorks generates a memory allocation error after about an hour's worth of calculations.

The actual error:
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"Not enough memory to continue the calculation. Failed to allocate requested continuous memory block of 1048576 (1.00MB)"
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I've gotten this error on two separate occasions, each time about 1.25GB of memory were in use (total). This is on a quad-core intel system with 3GB of memory RAM , so I'm guessing the issue is a software configuration problem..

Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 

RE: floworks ERROR: Not enough memory to continue the calculation

This has happened before to me as well.  I believe windows was unable to reallocate memory usage for the CFD program.  To address the issue (which works some of the time), I restarted windows and Solidworks before I set-up the CFD problem.  This may all be a problem with memory allocation, Windows and Solidworks (and I'm sure the version of all of those matters too).

That's my best crack at it; however, I'm positive there are some people on this forum who should be able to give the exact explanation of the problem and its solution.

Best of luck!

Regards,

Kyle

Kyle Chandler
www.chiefengineering.net

"To the Pessimist, the glass is half-empty.  To the Optimist, the glass is half-full.  To the Engineer, the glass is twice as large as it needs to be!"
 

RE: floworks ERROR: Not enough memory to continue the calculation

A way to free some more memory with Windows is to open boot.ini with notepad or another text editor and locate the line:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Add /3GB to the line like this

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /3GB /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

The /noexecute=optin and /fastdetect are optional btw.

ZillionM

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