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From: John Coppens
Subject: Out of memory, when enabling scattering
Date: 18 Dec 2009 00:08:56
Message: <20091218020810.710dd4b7.john@johncoppens.com>
Hello people.

Wanting to experiment a bit with media, I enabled scattering in a scene,
and, after maybe 4000 pixels (of 480000), I get 'Out of memory'. I
haven't really found much references to this error on the 'net, or in the
POV-ray docs, so I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here?

The scene is certainly not overly complicated. I suppose the memory
referenced is RAM memory? I have 2 GB of that, with another 2 in swap
memory. I'm running on AMD64, in a self compiled POV-ray (last beta).

Anything I can do?
John


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Out of memory, when enabling scattering
Date: 18 Dec 2009 00:20:01
Message: <web.4b2b0fe5d61890057295bfc90@news.povray.org>
John Coppens <joh### [at] johncoppenscom> wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> Wanting to experiment a bit with media, I enabled scattering in a scene,
> and, after maybe 4000 pixels (of 480000), I get 'Out of memory'. I
> haven't really found much references to this error on the 'net, or in the
> POV-ray docs, so I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here?
>
> The scene is certainly not overly complicated. I suppose the memory
> referenced is RAM memory? I have 2 GB of that, with another 2 in swap
> memory. I'm running on AMD64, in a self compiled POV-ray (last beta).
>
> Anything I can do?

buy more memory?


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From: CShake
Subject: Re: Out of memory, when enabling scattering
Date: 18 Dec 2009 01:17:16
Message: <4b2b1e6c$1@news.povray.org>
John Coppens wrote:
> Hello people.
> 
> Wanting to experiment a bit with media, I enabled scattering in a scene,
> and, after maybe 4000 pixels (of 480000), I get 'Out of memory'. I
> haven't really found much references to this error on the 'net, or in the
> POV-ray docs, so I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here?
> 
> The scene is certainly not overly complicated. I suppose the memory
> referenced is RAM memory? I have 2 GB of that, with another 2 in swap
> memory. I'm running on AMD64, in a self compiled POV-ray (last beta).
> 
> Anything I can do?
> John

Try decreasing the number of light sources in your scene and see if it 
still throws the error - I reported what may be the same error back in 
beta31:
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3C49baa5cc%241%40news.povray.org%3E

I never saw an answer if it was actually fixed.


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From: John Coppens
Subject: Re: Out of memory, when enabling scattering
Date: 18 Dec 2009 09:07:32
Message: <20091218110731.742b4743.john@johncoppens.com>
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:15:17 EST
"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> > Anything I can do?
> 
> buy more memory?

I know it's Christmas, but I'm too late for Santa...

John


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From: John Coppens
Subject: Re: Out of memory, when enabling scattering
Date: 18 Dec 2009 09:14:25
Message: <20091218111424.480b422b.john@johncoppens.com>
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:17:11 -0500
CShake <cshake+pov### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> Try decreasing the number of light sources in your scene and see if it 
> still throws the error - I reported what may be the same error back in 
> beta31:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3C49baa5cc%241%40news.povray.org%3E

Yes, that is likely the same error. I have aproximately the same
number of light sources in the scene, and I tried to change other
elements with no luck. The version in use here is 3.7.0beta34, so it
seems no progress was made on that front.

Thanks for the reply
John


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