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10 May 2024 11:49:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Memory crash under Debian Sidux  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 30 Apr 2010 03:43:31
Message: <4bda8a23$1@news.povray.org>

> High!
>
> Recently, I tried to render a mesh2 generated from an image file 1200 x
> 1200 pixels large. After reading in all color values (using
> eval_pigment()), POV-Ray crashed... as the same thing occurred when I
> tried it on my second computer running Windows, I drew the conclusion
> that 1.5 gigabytes of RAM is not enough for such a huge mesh. Is there a
>  way to configure swap memory usage with POV-Ray 3.6 for Linux? Or could
>  it be that my swap partition (currently 2 gigabytes) is too small?

   IIRC, you can use more than one swap partition... but of course, the only
real solution would be to add more RAM.

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

http://www.ignorancia.org


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