"SomeOne" <ask### [at] yahoocouknospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've managed to create a scene that takes POV-Ray to the limit and beyond,
> where memory is concerned.
>
> After 9min of parsing, POV-ray tells me it is out of memory and can't
continue.
> And looking in the scene file where it stops it has hardly begun...
>
> I have 256MB RAM and 640MB virtual memory allocated on Windows XP.
>
> The scene I'm trying to render is a cloud using a density field (df3) and
a
> tree with several hundreds of leaves. I'm using a while loop to place
these two
> objects a number of times in different locations around the scene.
>
> I'm wondering how I can render the scene without problems.
> Would increasing the virtual memory help (say, 10x more)?
>
> Please don't tell me I'll need to upgrade ;-)
> -- 
> Maurice
>
>

are you sure the loop ever terminates? maybe it's just creating objects
forever and never reaching a "stop" condition.

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