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  Re: a memory question ??  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 11 Oct 2001 08:44:58
Message: <3BC59446.E96BE3F6@gmx.de>
MR wrote:
> 
> hi warp,
> 
> here's the quote:
> *****
> This 2gb limit is kinda scary when you consider that we have already seen
> at least one POV image that uses more than half of that ... for users of
> consumer Microsoft OS's, once scenes start hitting 2gb, no amount of RAM
> will help the problem (POV will just fail with a memory allocation error).
> *****

That referred to exceeding memory during parsing, Povray will stop parsing
and tell it connot allocate more memory.

Christoph

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