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6 Oct 2024 11:48:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PVMegaPOV memory leak???  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 14 Jul 2001 21:23:31
Message: <3B50EE60.BA466804@faricy.net>
Disnel wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>    I'am using PVMegaPOV for rendering animations and it loks like there
> is some memory leak: as it computes more and more frames is takes more
> and more memory. It is very unhappy, because I use some machines with
> 64MB RAM and animation, which has at the begining several MB in RAM can
> easily use 100 or 200 MB of RAM when computing 100th frame, for example.

I believe all the current versions have this leak.  I think the only
thing you can do is render a certain number of frames and restart POV. 
Which means you can't have it render while you're gone too.  :(

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David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
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