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2 Aug 2024 12:19:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Out of memory?  
From: Alain
Date: 24 Oct 2004 22:54:19
Message: <417c6adb$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New nous apporta ses lumieres ainsi en ce 2004-10-24 15:05... :

> Uplah wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this is a stupid question!
>
>
> Since you mention that it may be a stupid question, I'll offer a bit 
> of advice that might assume you don't know how to configure your 
> computer. :-) Apologies if you already knew this.
>
> Control panel->System->Advanced->Performance Settings->Advanced->Change
>
> Make sure the maximum size is big enough.
>
> If during the render you get a little yellow warning icon in the 
> system tray, try turning up the "initial size" there, as PovRay may be 
> running out of memory even while the system is growing the swap space.
>
> Note that when you make it smaller again after you're done, you might 
> need to reboot. You can also use the top half of that window to decide 
> to put the swap space on one of your bigger drives, or split it 
> between drives.

If you do that, put the parts on different physical drives. Otherwise, 
you'll loose performance.

>
> If you have plenty of swap space, something else might be happening.


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