Enlighten filled up my 1TB SSD o.O

So, I set Unity off building the lighting for my scene last night, and when I woke up this morning it was to the Force Quit dialogue box telling me that my system had run out of application memory. After killing Unity, I noticed that I also had only 2GB disk space left, when it was 600GB when I went to sleep.

My scene is just 16 4096x4096 terrains in a 4x4 grid with a few models dumped on top of it—nothing /that/ complicated. Does it seriously require more disk space to calculate the lighting for a single scene than it does to render the whole of Big Buck Bunny in 4K?

 

Holy crap. I hope they don't ask for the temporary files for the bug report

 

Holy Dogshit. That is insane.

 

RC2? What are the Lighting baked and realtime settings?

 

I had a similar issue occur on RC2. Yosemite ran out of memory and prompted me to close down applications. I reported my issue with scene; bug - 672845.

 

Yeah, it's 5.0.0f2, and I have an emissive texture I use to emulate corridor lighting without actually having to have 180 individual tiny point lights. Sometimes it works fine (although it takes hours to process) and sometimes it seems to hang and get stuck on something and it just keeps writing data in the process. >.<

 

Alas, it wasn't swapping that caused the fill-up; it figuratively dumped the entire Internet into the GICache folder, which I unfortunately just deleted rather than diagnosing properly.

I'll try to re-create the issue and get the scene to you for testing.

 

Yikes...

...speaking of memory usage, where can we see the size of the final precomputed data for a given scene that's been processed for realtime GI?

 

@KEngelstoft Check out 672845.