POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Why does Pov-RAY 3.5/3.6 slow down gradually? : Re: Why does Pov-RAY 3.5/3.6 slow down gradually? Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:23:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why does Pov-RAY 3.5/3.6 slow down gradually?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 13 Mar 2004 07:18:51
Message: <4052fc2b$1@news.povray.org>
In article <4052b182$1@news.povray.org> , "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> 
wrote:

> I've noticed that too. It also does it on large images, even if the complexity
> is constant throughout. If your scene renders quickly it can easily double the
> time taken to render each frame.
>
> I have no idea what the cause is, but it's *very* annoying!

It should not double.  Most likely what you see is just memory fragmentation
(the message window does take memory!), and if you have too little memory
this will result in increased swapping.

    Thorsten

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