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Unbelievably high memory usage

Altera_Forum
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‎06-29-2010 10:23 AM
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I often get "out of memory" error when compiling in QuartusII 9.1 SP2. It reports the memory usage is 837MB ... :-s 

Why does Quartus consume so much of memory? is it normal?
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Altera_Forum
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‎06-29-2010 10:39 AM
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Its quite normal, especially for larger devices.  

The minimum requirement for larger arria 2s is 3GB! 

 

There are often many nets to maintain and route.
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‎06-29-2010 02:17 PM
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http://www.altera.com/support/software/quartus2/memory/qts-memory.html 

 

What Quartus has to say about it. And the pdf linked (http://www.altera.com/literature/rn/rn_qts_dev_support.pdf) with the release notes has what they recommend memory for different target devices.
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Altera_Forum
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‎06-30-2010 04:55 AM
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Thanks guys,  

I'm a bit out-dated on this issue. But still, can't appreciate the amount of consumed memory.
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