POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Memory usage : Re: Memory usage Server Time
24 Apr 2024 06:36:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Memory usage  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 2 Feb 2018 15:23:35
Message: <5a74c8c7$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/1/2018 4:48 PM, Roland Melkert wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> There are several programs that convert LDraw models to POV-Ray. I'm
>> wondering if there are differences in memory usage between the various
>> types of output. How would I measure the memory usage? Would it be
>> better to measure peak usage? Average usage over time? Thanks.
> 
> If high memory usage is your problem, I think it is mainly caused by the LGEO
> library as an OpenGL mesh export only (as done by my LDCad) uses just 32MB (yes
> mega not giga) during rendering in POV-Ray on my system.
> 
> This using your datsville scene (rev528, datsville_master/datsville.ldr)
> 
> But I have seen it use over 20GB in the past when doing a LGEO based export
> through LDView's export).
> 
> 

That's odd, because I run out of memory (8GB) unless I use LDBoxer first 
to cut down on triangles.


Mike


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