Le 16-01-31 18:37, Sven Littkowski a écrit :
> 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?

Normal

>
> 2
> I have 8 GB of memory. What will happen if POV-Ray reaches a memory
> consumption 0f 7 or even 8 GB?
>

You'll start on the road of paging hell as more and more of the data for 
the scene get swapped back and forth between the RAM and the disk.
If you have no more space in virtual memory, welcome computer crash.

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