Jinx wrote:
> 
> I've got win xp at home, and I've noticed that if a scene uses up all
> available physical memory and starts to fill up the pagefile, then win xp
> will always "reallocate" the memory, so that pov cannot free it when the
> render finishes...
> 
> it's best noticed on task manager (and other apps) that show that pov is
> "only using 400Mb RAM" when infact it is nearer 1Gb...
> And then once the render is finished, the 600Mb difference cannot be
> recovered.
> 
> any solutions (anyone else actually seen this?)

What you describe is obviously a windows problem (either a real problem or
just a bug in the display of memory use).  I don't know windows xp
personally but from what i have heard it's not the best choice of an OS
for heavy memory use.  Apart from that using more memory than available
for POV-Ray is usually not a good idea, no matter what OS.

Christoph

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