"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
news:chr### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> In article <3d681183@news.povray.org>,
>  "Alf Peake" <alf### [at] peake42freeservecouk> wrote:
>
> > And a different scene with photons - after a 3 hour parse - "Slab
> > Building Error: Out of memory.  Cannot allocate 327680 bytes for
> > photons."  Mummy! Make that nasty Windows go away!
> > </wimper>
>
> Well, that is a POV error, not a Windows one. It ran out of memory
while
> generating photons.

I understood it was a Windows error? W98SE refuses to release unused
resources that it reserves for itself. I have 160M ram, not a lot
these days. In this case Pov stopped at 78K photons and I've been up
to 5M in other scenes with no errors.

Alf

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