"MR" <a### [at] bnet> wrote in message news:3bc4eacc$1@news.povray.org...
> hello,
>
> whats the deal on this?  there's such a thing as "virtual" memory,
> isn't there, where the app spools out to the hard drive for memory.
> i know that processing slows to a crawl because this is so time-
> consuming, but i got the impression from the post i read that pov-
> ray won't even go the "virtual" memory route.

I'm no expert on memory issues, but I know POV does use virtual
memory. I had a scene that took 580MB memory rendering on
a machine that only has 128MB.

I think the 3.5 beta 5 crashes were due to pov running out of stack space

Gail
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