Am 25.11.2010 18:28, schrieb Anthony D. Baye:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Still, are you sure it is POV-Ray memory consumption that's bogging down
>> your system?
> ...
> And I am pretty sure it's pov that's to blame, I've tried it twice, and it bogs
> down so much it refuses to accept a shutdown command.

My question wasn't whether POV-Ray was to blame, but whether POV-Ray 
/memory consumption/ was to blame.

As for inhibiting shutdown - I'm no Linux expert, but I guess you can 
get that with any program that takes some time to stop when politely 
asked to do so, as I don't think shutdown will automatically send a 
SIGKILL. And AFAIK POV-Ray's render threads will not stop before they 
have finished computing the current pixel, so if your scene is 
computationally intensive, shutdown may be delayed even without 
excessive memory consumption.

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