Sean Meighan

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Title: Warning about VERY large number of channels after adding this years props.
Post by: mlevings on November 24, 2018, 03:10:08 PM

I added some new props this year and am now getting an error about having 10,000,028 channels and using 40Gb or memory.  It is taking a LONG time to save and my sequences jumped from 400mb each to 5Gb to 44Gb is size.  I only added a 3000 pixel tree and 60 RBL lights.  Any ideas what went wrong?   My actual channel count in xlights is only 95k.

Title: Re: Warning about VERY large number of channels after adding this years props.
Post by: dkulp on November 24, 2018, 03:47:41 PM

Sort by start channel on your layout.   Most likely, you did something like typed in 9999999 for a start channel.   

Title: Re: Warning about VERY large number of channels after adding this years props.
Post by: mlevings on November 24, 2018, 03:58:27 PM

I actually did add a few high start channels yesterday to get some props to the bottom of the list.  Now they are not showing up at all.  My highest start channel is around 90,000.  Could they be stuck somewhere in the config and not showing up now?

Title: Re: Warning about VERY large number of channels after adding this years props.
Post by: mlevings on November 24, 2018, 04:22:55 PM

I found the offending items in the rgbeffects file.  I removed those lines and all is well again.  Thanks for pointing that out Daniel!