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16 May 2024 03:02:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: povray 3.7 Mac beta heat/fan running  
From: Yvo Smellenbergh
Date: 4 Oct 2012 13:33:01
Message: <1krggpp.b82mbfaeqx3aN%yvo.s@cancel_This_gmx.net>
HenryW <pov### [at] henrywagnerorg> wrote:

> I recently started using the Mac build of 3.7 RC5 and RC6 posted on this beta
> group. I'm running on a Mac Book Pro, 4GB, OS X 10.7.4. When rendering scenes
> the laptop internal fan starts almost immediately and runs the entire time a
> scene is rendering. Is this expected due to all the calculations going on in
> POV?

Normal.
POV-Ray is one of the few programs that is able to use all the cores at
100%, 24 on some Pro models!
Make sure that you have the latest version, currently it is RC6_r2 which
fixes a very nasty memory leak.

Yvo

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