Out of Memory Error - Stress Linearization

[chris.huck1977]

I have a vessel that I have analyzed using 3d elements. There are areas where the geometry makes abrupt changes and so I have to use the Stress Linearization tool to determine the bending and membrane stresses in that area.

My problem is, when I launch the Stress Linearization tool, it sits there for about 30 seconds and then gives me the error:

Run-Time Error '7' - Out of Memory

My machine has 12GB of RAM and I've got Resource Monitor open. I've still got over 6GB free. Anybody have any idea why this is happening?

[chris.huck1977]

As an additional data point, I tried another, much simpler model just to make sure it wasn't model dependent. The simpler model works just fine. 

Perhaps my model is just too big?

The model that is failing has the following properties:

**** Symbolic Assembly Using the Row-Hits Matrix Profile ...
 **** Number of equations                 = 571016
      Estimated maximum bandwidth         = 616
      Estimated triangle matrix nonzeroes = 48978954
      Symbolically assembled nonzeros     = 10577288
 **** Real Sparse Matrix Assembly ...
                                                  
1**** STIFFNESS MATRIX PARAMETERS                 
                                                  
      minimum non-zero diagonal element =           1.6686E+06
      maximum diagonal element          =           1.3930E+09
      maximum/minimum                   =           8.3484E+02
      average diagonal element          =           5.5878E+07
                                                  
      Minimum found at equation #197840: node = 66942 DOF=Tz
      Maximum found at equation #519225: node = 174477 DOF=Tx

      in the upper triangle:
      number of entries in the profile    = 48978954
      number of nonzeros                  = 10574982

 **** Sparse Matrix Assembled

 **** Invoking Parallel BCSLIB-EXT Sparse Solver...
 
 **** Load Cases 1
      BCSLIB-EXT solver memory status:  
      in-core memory requirement (MB) =         1518.89
      minimum memory requirement (MB) =          168.42
           user specified memory (MB) =         3063.65
       available physical memory (MB) =         3063.65
        available virtual memory (MB) =         9310.69
      memory currently allocated (MB) =         1518.89
 **** End Sparse Solver Solution
 

               Reaction Sums and Maxima for Load Case       1

      Sum of applied forces
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
      1.4128E+04 -3.5282E+04 -1.0943E+04  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Sum of reactions
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
      2.0652E-06 -1.4710E-06 -4.1880E-06  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Sum of residuals
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
      1.4128E+04 -3.5282E+04 -1.0943E+04  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Sum of unfixed direction residuals
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
      3.0113E-06 -9.9219E-06  2.0335E-06  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Largest applied forces and moments
            Node        Node        Node        Node        Node        Node
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
          135382      133210      135468           0           0           0
     -4.4066E+06 -2.5280E+06 -4.4735E+06  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Largest nodal reactions
            Node        Node        Node        Node        Node        Node
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
          135382      133210      135468           0           0           0
      4.4066E+06  2.5280E+06  4.4735E+06  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Largest nodal residuals
            Node        Node        Node        Node        Node        Node
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
           45106       36254       67713           0           0           0
      1.0326E+04 -1.2056E+03  1.9515E+03  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00

      Largest unfixed direction residuals
            Node        Node        Node        Node        Node        Node
         X-Force     Y-Force     Z-Force    X-Moment    Y-Moment    Z-Moment
          137419      107753      149440           0           0           0
     -1.8021E-07 -4.9639E-07 -1.3784E-07  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
  
                                                  
1**** TEMPORARY FILE STORAGE (MEGABYTES)          
      ----------------------------------          
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       UNIT NO.  9 :      0.000
       UNIT NO. 10 :      0.000
       UNIT NO. 11 :      0.000
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       UNIT NO. 17 :      0.000
       UNIT NO. 50 :    548.980
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       UNIT NO. 59 :      0.000

       TOTAL       :   1278.417 Megabytes