Am 24.11.2010 05:28, schrieb Anthony D. Baye in povray.general:
> I think beta 39 might have a memory leak.  When I render with radiosity, it
> slows my computer down so bad it grinds to a halt.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 on a Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 with an intel core 2 duo
> processor.  I know it has over a gig of memory.  There's no reason for it to bog
> down on a render like that.

That definitely depends on the scene you're rendering, most notably its 
radiosity settings.

I once designed a scene that turned out to require so maddeningly high 
quality settings that even the 6 GB I have available weren't enough. 
While that scene was /designed/ to be a pathological case, there is the 
definite possibility of achieving such high memory requirements by a 
mere typo in the settings.

Still, are you sure it is POV-Ray memory consumption that's bogging down 
your system?

(OOC, how did you get your hands on beta 39 for Linux in the first 
place? AFAIK there is neither an official Linux build for that beta yet, 
nor a source code release for either Windows or Linux.)

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