Le 19/10/2010 18:50, Warp nous fit lire :
> Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
>> I seem to be hitting a wall when stacking more than 64
>> transparent objects ("Fatal error in renderer: Out of memory").
>> The actual memory used by the process was only a few MB. Also,
>> it doesn't help to set "max_trace_level" to a larger value,
>> but AFAIU passing through transparency without reflection no
>> longer adds to the trace level in 3.7 anyway (using beta 39).
> 
>   There's an easy way of testing if the problem happens because of that
> feature: Add a tiny bit of refraction to the transparent objects. This
> will make it use max_trace_level as usual. (Of course you should probably
> increase max_trace_level to at least 65 to get a proper comparison.)
> 

max_trace_level is a red herring.

The issue is an exception (bad_alloc) in Run()
(source/backend/support/task.cpp); 65 planes might be the real trigger.

More on that later.

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