Le 17-10-17 à 15:27, Kenneth a écrit :
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> "Max" <max### [at] intelcom> wrote:
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>>> Would povray be able to do more if memory were along the lines of 32GB
>> or larger for the average user?
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>> YES.
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> A naive question: Does POV-Ray actually choke on a larger-than-RAM-memory scene?
> I thought disc-swapping would take over (slower of course, but with no outright
> crash.)
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On a 32 bits system, it can crash if the scene demand more than 4 Gb. 
Not a POV-Ray limit, but a system whide limitation.

On a 64 bits system, the actual limit is MUCH MUCH larger at more than 
16 PETA bytes... Or as much RAM plus any swap/page file you can manage 
to get.

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