Okay... dumb question: Why is it that -ga has no effect in 3.6 beta 1? It works
perfectly in 3.5 and speeds up anything I'm rendering.

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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
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> Wow! Thanks for finding that! I think I'll just switch it off permanently.
>
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> Tek
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> "Severi Salminen" <sev### [at] NOT_THISsibafi> wrote in message
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> > >>> I have no idea what the cause is, but it's *very* annoying!
> > >>
> > >> It should not double. Most likely what you see is just memory
> > >> fragmentation (the message window does take memory!), and if you
> > >> have too little memory this will result in increased swapping.
> > >
> > > I tried to turn text output to minimum with "-GA" but it had no
> > > effect (IIRC).
> >
> > And I didn't recall correctly :) Specifying "-ga" does get rid of the
> > slowdown so the message window is the reason for all this. It is
> > probably not about memory usage (at least not about swapping) but some
> > overhead that just grows and grows.
> >
> > *Testing...*
> >
> > Ok, the reason is the statistics stream. By turning it off, the speed
> > keeps constant. Maybe it is simply feeding too much stuff for my (or
> > any) AMD XP2600+ to keep up or something. I think this is something that
> > should be addressed at least in the docs (if there is no direct way to
> > "fix" it) as the impact on rendering times is quite considerable.
> >
> > The odd thing is that it happens also when rendering something that
> > takes a lot more time/frame (then there should be enough time to output
> > the statistics). Even then the slowdown is happening.
> >
> > Good thing is that I know how to get rid of it...
> >
> > Severi
>
>

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