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29 Jul 2024 16:20:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A little trick on big scenes  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 27 Jul 2005 16:29:16
Message: <42e7ee9c@news.povray.org>
bancquart.sebastien wrote:

> If this is the case : your scene uses too much memory for your PC and POVRAY 
> uses virtual memory, which is very slow. Tryinog to optimize the code of 
> your scene could reduce the memory consumption. If not, close all other 
> progs during rendering.

Another way is naturally increase the amount of RAM on the machine ;).
And/or close other programs that are using memory.

Today 1GB RAM + 1GB swap got too small for me...

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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