In article <B3A### [at] 14710983.2> , "Martin Crisp" 
<val### [at] tesseractcomau> wrote:

>> No, to be honest the problem is due to some still existing memory leaks (we
>> think), not much, about 1 KB per render, but that is enough to cause a bit of
>> memory fragmentation during animation renders.
>
> Found most of my time 'loss' disappeared if I didn't have the preview window
> open (variation in frame times easily explainable by differences in
> anti-aliasing required, reflection etc.)
>
> Still shouldn't be happening, but at least I can prevent it.

Well, it is still there but much less noticable...
I assumed you had the preview off (you saw the note in the docs about the
low rendering speed when preview is on, didn't you?). With preview on more
memory is allocated and the fragmentation grows much faster.


>> Sorry, only the required suite is supported yet. But you can still get
>> minimal automatic rendering as you can set up POv-Ray to auto-start a render
>> when it is opened and receives and open document event.

> And if I use AppleScript to alter .ini file contents....

Yes, that is possible. It is a lot of work...


    Thorsten


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