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ComfyUI RAM Fix Improves Performance

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A Reddit user shared a solution for ComfyUI's excessive RAM usage and crashing issues, particularly when running large models like minimax h3. The user found that launching ComfyUI with the `--disable-pinned-memory` flag significantly reduced system memory reservation and eliminated generation errors. Surprisingly, this change also resulted in faster and smoother image generation. AI

IMPACT This tip may help users of ComfyUI and similar AI art generation tools optimize their system resources for smoother and faster performance.

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ComfyUI RAM Fix Improves Performance

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  1. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Better-Interview-793 ·

    ComfyUI was eating my RAM and causing crashes, this fixed it

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone </p> <p>i’ve been running minimax h3 locally on rtx 5090 32gb, and 64gb ram..</p> <p>recently i kept running into random hostbuffer.read_file_slice failed / hostbuf_file_reader_read failed errors during generation, which seemed to be …

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