Le 15/01/2011 20:17, geep999 nous fit lire :
> Slackware 13.0 x86_64 running RC2 - I've recently started finding pov'pid' files
> in my /tmp directory - where 'pid' was the povray process id.
> They're quite big - 60Mb or so - similar size to the .pov-state file in my
> working directory.
> 
> Usually they're cleaned up at the end of a povray run, but if I kill a job then
> they're left behind.
> 
> I don't remember ever seeing them before RC2 - what are they for?
> Should they be there?
There: yes.
They are used for big picture to avoid taking too much valued ram.
(so far the trigger is more than 1024² pixels, but it is still a hot
topic and might evolve, as far as I know (and I ignore a lot of things!))
You can change the location by exporting POV_TEMP_DIR value if /tmp does
not suit you.

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