HenryW <pov### [at] henrywagnerorg> wrote:
> I recently started using the Mac build of 3.7 RC5 and RC6 posted on this beta
> group. I'm running on a Mac Book Pro, 4GB, OS X 10.7.4. When rendering scenes
> the laptop internal fan starts almost immediately and runs the entire time a
> scene is rendering. Is this expected due to all the calculations going on in
> POV?

POV-Ray is using 100% of your CPU, so it's completely normal for it to
heat up. There's nothing dangerous about that.

Launch Activity Monitor while POV-Ray is running and see the CPU usage
tab there to see how much is being used.

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                                                          - Warp

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