Am 01.02.2016 um 02:20 schrieb Alain:

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>> 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.

Running out of /virtual/ memory is a feat that on a Windows system
rarely ever happens. Before that, Swap Hell will become so bad that the
render (and everything else on the computer) grinds to a
near-standstill, including anything that would allocate additional memory.

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