>"clipka"  wrote in message news:51fa0312@news.povray.org...

>> Looks like that's it. Linux-guru diagnosis points to the "OOM killer," a
>> process that kills other processes when Linux runs out of RAM.

> Is that physical RAM or swap space?

This is from user timkb4cq on the mepiscommunity.org forum:

"There's an old debian bug report about Pov-Ray running out of memory & when 
the user increased the size of his swap file to try to get around that it 
would fail with "killed" instead of "out of memory". I haven't found any 
solution given other than decreasing resolution or installing more ram in 
the box..."

Further replies directed me toward the OOM Killer.

> (Then again, if you buy more RAM, you might still need to increase the 
> swap partition anyway; AFAIK Linux insists on each page of physical RAM 
> being backed by a page of swap space, so swap space = physical memory is 
> the absolute minimum.)

I learn something new every day. No time to fool with it at the moment. I 
allow myself about 20 minutes a day to mess with anything computer related 
at home.

-Shay

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