Ken wrote:

> ryan mooney wrote:
> >
> > i cant seem to get my computer to render the pyramid.pov and other
> > complex macros... not enough memory status win. warning or fatal pov
> > error warning... i have tried to use all of my available mem. usually
> > 40+ MB.. have not tried vir. memory... how much do i need to render the
> > pyramid???
>
> Ryan,
>
>  Recursive macros like the pyramid macro are real memory pigs. If you have
> a way to allocate virtual memory it is time to do so. Some of the very
> complicated recursive macros that I have developed have taken as much as
> 500 megs of memory to process before they would render. Even though I am
> running on a PC with 128 megs of physical memory I often have to go into
> virtual memory when working with recursive macros like those used in
> pyramid.pov and many of the recursive tree generating include files.
> POV-Ray can eat a lot of memory in some applications and it looks to me
> like you have found the limits of your system. It will process macros
> of this type more efficiently and faster if you install more physical
> ram on your system but you can also rely on much slower virtual memory
> if you are unable to upgrade your system at this time. Just be prepared
> to put up with a lot of hard drive activity when you do.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

Yea 8 hours or so into the praising and it still was not done "creating the
vista buffers" too much time for me i don't mind long render times but my
computer makes an horrible machine noise wile praising this is not fun to
sleep w/

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