POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : More on memory problem : Re: More on memory problem Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:15:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More on memory problem  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 19 Jun 2006 11:24:01
Message: <4496c191$1@news.povray.org>
Greg Williams wrote:
> I tried both Mac and WIndows, and neither was able to finish the job.
> Neither one of them is a whimpy computer, either. I was able to go back to
> the source program, and remove enough scene elements to cut the file size
> from about 335 MB to about 250, and that has worked for me. So I'm
> narrowing in on the limits of what POV-Ray can handle on my computers.

Please be advised that the size of your scene file says absolutely nothing
abouts its memory requirements. A few lines in POV-Ray scene description
language can generate an infinite number of objects, and as such could
exhaust the resources any computer can provide.

	Thorsten


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