[Bf-committers] Increase hard max of subdivision operator?

[Fazekas László]

Just an idea: sometimes when I mistakenly release something what is 
memory hungry, a watchdog would be useful, and not only for the 
subdivision. When an older (ie. 1-2 cores) machine is starting to use 
the swap, sometimes it's nearly impossible even to open a terminal to 
kill Blender. After x% of memory usage, a watchdog should pause the 
process (on threading level, or with a trap at the malloc function) and 
should ask the user what to do, with an option to undo the last edit.

Fazek

2016-04-30 11:53 keltezéssel, Rain Gloom írta:
> Yeah, on second thought the warning would get irritating pretty fast. I
> vote on Gandalf's too.
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Patrick Boelens <p_boelens at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> This would be internally inconsistent though, and frankly seems like
>> overkill to me. +1 from me on Gandalf's soft/ hard limit suggestion.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Rain Gloom <raingloom42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> IMHO a warning would suffice. It shouldn't be hard to compute an estimate
>>> of the number of resulting vertices/faces, so the warning could say
>>> something like: "This will create <resulting-number-of-vertices> which
>>> might slow down your computer."
>>> Same thing as asking before overwriting a file or closing without saving.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As seen in this SE question
>>>> <http://blender.stackexchange.com/q/51525/599>, the current
>> hard-maximum
>>>> number of subdivision cuts (100) is easily within the realm of what
>>>> users would like to use.
>>>>
>>>> What is the reasoning behind having a hard-maximum at all? I can
>>>> understand having a soft-maximum to protect against accidentally setting
>>>> the number of cuts too high, but that system is already in place and
>>>> works well.
>>>>
>>>> Would it not be more user-friendly to allow any number to be typed
>>>> directly, especially if the user wants a prime number of cuts?
>>>>
>>>> This maximum apparently didn't exist in 2.74
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