POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Computer locked up : Re: Computer locked up Server Time
22 Jun 2024 06:41:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Computer locked up  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 15 Aug 2015 13:53:50
Message: <55cf7cae$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/15/2015 1:00 AM, clipka wrote:
> Well, /unfortunately/ it does.
>
> POV-Ray is a rather special beast with regards to system performance
> requirements. In contrast to most applications it really needs to access
> much of its data pretty frequently, and its render tasks don't do any
> file i/o at all, so it keeps the operating system busy juggling virtual
> memory back and forth.
>
>
> With that in mind, I wonder whether /reducing/ the number of render
> threads might help keep the system somewhat stable in such a situation.
>

I would be willing to sacrifice render speed for stability. In my case 
the parsing is what uses all the resources, and rendering only takes a 
few minutes even at 8192x8192px. As an option of course.


Mike


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