Am 25.03.2016 um 13:43 schrieb Simon J. Cambridge:
> 
> I have seen this happen, but only occasionally. And I have a workaround.
> 
> Some while ago one of my images (I render at 2048x1536) crashed POV-Ray (XP,
> intel quad core - yes, I know, I need to leave the stone age!) by eating up the
> memory (gradual climb from 1.3 gb to 1.7 gb over 24 hours). It was a tree scene
> so there were lots of objects. I subsequently discovered that by pausing the
> render and going off to do something else on the very same machine the reported
> memory usage dropped and then picked up again after restarting the render, but
> at a much lower value, allowing the render to complete.
> 
> Is this the same problem, or something else again?

That exactly matches the scenario I described.

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