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From: Dean
Subject: Partial render memory leak
Date: 17 Jan 2002 14:18:19
Message: <3C47228A.D7680441@twoalpha.net>

When I do several partial renders, and then stop in the middle of that
render, the program will stop the render but will not re-claim the
memory.  After several of these I run out of memory and the system locks
up or gets sluggish.  In the previous beta9 I did not have this problem
at all.

Normally I use about 24Mb of ram to parse and never go to virtual
memory.
If I let the partial render go to completion, the render will finish and
will re-claim most of the memory.  The system does begin to get unstable
after a few of these also.

Thank you

Dean

PIII 1.0Ghz 256Mb ram  Win ME

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From: Kevin Ellis
Subject: Re: Partial render memory leak
Date: 18 Jan 2002 12:31:07
Message: <3c485bdb$1@news.povray.org>

"Dean" <dea### [at] twoalphanet> wrote in message
news:3C47228A.D7680441@twoalpha.net...
> When I do several partial renders, and then stop in the middle of that
> render, the program will stop the render but will not re-claim the
> memory.  After several of these I run out of memory and the system locks
> up or gets sluggish.  In the previous beta9 I did not have this problem
> at all.

I can confirm that memory is not released after you stop mid-render, the
only way to get it back is to close POV and restart it.

pov3.5 beta10 intel compile
win98
512mb ram
athlon 1.33ghz

Kev

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