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Honored ContributorDo you know if the fitter is completing successfully? That's the first thing to check. If it is completing successfully then read my next paragraph.
I had a similar problem with a newer version of the tool and increasing the size of my swapfile solved it. In my case I did some experiments and concluded quartus_sta couldn't allocate enough memory and error'd out and therefore certain file were not produced - which then resulted in import_compile.tcl failing because it was unable to find files that should have been generated. All my problems went away when I increased my swapfile size (I had 32 GB of physical RAM and 16 GB swapfile, I increased by swapfile to 48 GB ). I sized my memory to be larger than Intel's recommended build machine memory size for my FPGA. Your post provides the peak virtual memory value and it seems pretty low so that may not be the case, but I never looked at the peak virtual memory reported in the transcript when I had my issue; I found my solution by going through and running some of the quartus commands manually and noticed sometimes STA reported it ran out of virtual memory and failed. Can you please post your *.flow.rpt file?
