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18 May 2024 06:07:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: RAM consumption increasing steadily. Rendering 100k images  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 7 May 2016 18:36:31
Message: <572e6def@news.povray.org>

> Am 07.05.2016 um 10:32 schrieb Jaime Vives Piqueres:
>
>> If so, I see a little increase from frame to frame on a test I
>> did: along 1000 frames, the memory increased some 300K.
>
> BTW, I wouldn't even know how to /measure/ such a tiny increase,
> with POV-Ray's memory footprint varying at runtime, apparently quite
> randomly, between values as low as about 8 MB and as high as about 24
> MB.
>

   My fault... it wasn't 300K but 300MB. Now I used htop and even with a
static scene the memory reported in use by POV-Ray increases as the
animation progresses. Yes, the reported memory varies randomly up and
down, but is definitely going up in the long run.


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