I've read the discussing so far, and I really ask myself why PovRay crashes
at such a memory usage. Surely this is not a standard test-case, but still,
I don't think it should crash. There are databases, CAD and other apps
running on W2K that do use up to 2 GB of memory, and I never heared they
crashed when tried to shut down.
My guess is some memory-allocation-fails case is not handled properly. I
don't have any idea how this could lead to a reset, either a bug in POV, or
in W2K (or, maybe most probable in both)

I've rendered a scene that hits my memory limit (sad to say, a 256 MB limit
is reached quite quick...). POV did neither crash nor reset. In fact after
the W2K message box "...too little virtual memory..." the scene rendered
fine...

Niki

"ingo" <ing### [at] homenl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> When parsing big files and memory use goes upto 2Gb a window pops up that
> says that I've ran out of memory. When I close the window and then POV-
> Ray, my machine resets. I don't like the resetting part.
>
> Probably more a windows problem than a POV-Ray problem, but I thought I'd
> report it here, just in case.
>
> Athlon 1800+, 1.5 Gb, Win2000, POV-Ray 3.5
>
>
> Ingo

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