On 1/31/2016 6:37 PM, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in order to speed up my POV-Ray rendering, I keep my Windows Task
> Manager (WTM) on and changed the Priority of POV-Ray to "High", but only
> during the nights.
>
> But having the WTM always open, allows me also to see the memory usage
> of POV-Ray. I am observing, that I started the render with a usage of
> 450 MB or so. Now, after 8 days, the memory usage lays at 3.7 GB.
>
> 1
> Does this point towards memory leak(s), or is this normal?
>
> 2
> I have 8 GB of memory. What will happen if POV-Ray reaches a memory
> consumption 0f 7 or even 8 GB?
>

This is normal. If you run out of memory your whole computer will lock up.


Mike

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