In article <web.41c5f5f337c0aed94d80a0910@news.povray.org> , "frumpel" 
<nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Interestingly, at the time it povray complains, top reports that it is only
> using about 2.6Gb of memory, i.e. there should still be about 3Gb left ...
> any hints what I am doing wrong or what I could tweak to get there?

The maximum address space of an application is the limit, not the limit of
swap space.  On a 32 bit system the maximum address space is 2**32 (4 GB).
This is a hardware address limit as a 32 bit pointer simply cannot address
more than 4 GB of memory.   Still, the application memory available is
further limited (for not easy to explain reasons) to something between 2 GB
to 3.5 GB depending on the operating system on 32 bit systems.

    Thorsten

PS: Note that you are using an outdated version of POV-Ray.  Also, note that
if you are using the package supplied by Debian, you are running an
unsupported version of POV-Ray with several extremely buggy patches added by
Debian the maintainer.

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