Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> 40 megapixel? Hmm how much RAM is it eating? Last time I tried an image 
> around that big, POV-Ray crashed.

I have no idea. I haven't looked. I wouldn't expect it to be exceptional...

Assuming the image were exactly 40,000,000 pixels (which it isn't), I 
would expect roughly 40,000,000 x 3 bytes = roughly 114 MB. You'd have 
to have a fairly underpowered machine to not be able to spare 114 MB. 
(Especially given the sequential access - surely most of it would just 
be paged out?)

Let me put it this way: I set POV-Ray running, set the processor 
affinity so it only uses one core, and then went off to play Farcry. 
There was no noticable performance drop. [But then, Farcry is probably 
nailing my GPU more than the CPU...]

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