Am 23.02.2013 21:02, schrieb Alex:

> I encounter an error that does not make sense to me (I am using POV version
> 3.7.0.RC7.msvc10.win64 on a Win 7 64 bit OS with 32 GB RAM).
>


> starts without any problem, but then after a few frames (and this number varies
> randomly: sometimes 3, sometimes 9, etc.), it suddenly stops with the error


Uh-oh... this doesn't sound very encouraging.

> FYI (1) - you need around 12 GB RAM to render this animation and with my i7 2.4
> GHz quadcore it takes around 15 min to run one frame...
>
> FYI (2) - in RC6, the same animation produced the error similar to
> http://bugs.povray.org/task/257.
>
> Any suggestions on how to tackle this problem?

Yup: Please add a comment to http://bugs.povray.org/task/257; it sounds 
to me like the issue hasn't been fixed for good yet.

> Or am I doing something wrong?

RAM shouldn't be the problem (you have more than enough, and even if it 
wasn't sufficient you'd end up in Swap Hell instead of seeing the render 
abort.

Render time shouldn't play a role either: No matter how long it takes, 
once POV-Ray is convinced that the render threads have been started 
successfully, it should wait patiently until they do finish (even if it 
takes a lifetime) or the /user/ gets impatient and hits the "stop" 
button. (In that case it may well happen that the render threads are so 
deep into math that they take longer to respond than POV-Ray is willing 
to wait /then/, but from what you describe you're not hitting any button 
during the render.)

As for scene content or render settings, there's no conceivable way to 
provoke the error message you're seeing.

So no, chances are very, very slim that we might be able to blame it on you.

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