POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: How do I use most of my RAM for tracing?: Re: How do I use most of my RAM for tracing?

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From: Tim Nikias
Date: 28 Apr 2002 06:01:53
Message: <3CCBC868.5DE146B4@gmx.de>

Ah, okay, thanks. I thought the +B option could
be used for something like "assign all RAM to POV"
or such.

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> POV-Ray uses as much memory as it *needs*, not more, not less. If the OS
> does not supply enough it will stop with an error.
>
> How much memory it needs obviously depends on the scene.
>
> On Windows systems you have the limitation of 2 GB of maximum memory that
> can be supplied by the OS to a program, no matter whether physical memory
> or not.
>
> Christoph

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