Hey, thanks Thorsten and Alain.  I don't use an antivirus program, so 
that couldn't be an issue.  I researched RAM fragmentation and that is 
likely the culprit.  Aside from paying $15 for some RAM defragmenter 
that may or may not improve performance, is there some tweak that can be 
done in POV-Ray to get it to behave properly?

-Ben

Alain wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 10/04/2006 14:31:
> 
>> Ben Scheele wrote:
>>
>>> The render time is fairly constant, but the parsing time is 
>>> increasing until it reaches a saturation point eventually.
>>
>>
>>
>> You you perhaps have a virus scanner installed that is interfering 
>> with the reading of files?
>>
>>     Thorsten
> 
> I don't think that a virus scanner would cause progressively increasing 
> parse time. It would tend to increase the first render time, then have a 
> decreased, constant, effect on successive render. RAM fragmentation can 
> cause this progressive increasing in parse time.
>

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