On 2/15/2015 7:48 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.02.2015 um 04:07 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> I've been playing around with different scales for the habitat. I prefer
>> the larger scale (left in the image). But I know there's no way I can
>> render it with the quality levels turned up higher. I tried a couple
>> days ago but after 2.5 hours it was still stuck in that stage between
>> parsing and actually rendering. I can't spare my computer for the week
>> or however long it would require to render the scene.
>
> Sounds like you might be hitting the physical memory limits of your
> computer, and entering the abyss of swap hell. In that case I'd wager
> even a week to be a very optimistic estimate.
>

I was keeping an eye on my physical memory and I don't remember it going 
past 4GB (I have 8GB total). My swap file is also on an SSD and I don't 
remember much activity (big blinking red light on PC case) there either.

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