Am 24.11.2010 05:28, schrieb Anthony D. Baye in povray.general:
> I think beta 39 might have a memory leak.  When I render with radiosity, it
> slows my computer down so bad it grinds to a halt.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 on a Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 with an intel core 2 duo
> processor.  I know it has over a gig of memory.  There's no reason for it to bog
> down on a render like that.

That definitely depends on the scene you're rendering, most notably its 
radiosity settings.

I once designed a scene that turned out to require so maddeningly high 
quality settings that even the 6 GB I have available weren't enough. 
While that scene was /designed/ to be a pathological case, there is the 
definite possibility of achieving such high memory requirements by a 
mere typo in the settings.

Still, are you sure it is POV-Ray memory consumption that's bogging down 
your system?

(OOC, how did you get your hands on beta 39 for Linux in the first 
place? AFAIK there is neither an official Linux build for that beta yet, 
nor a source code release for either Windows or Linux.)

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 24.11.2010 05:28, schrieb Anthony D. Baye in povray.general:
> > I think beta 39 might have a memory leak.  When I render with radiosity, it
> > slows my computer down so bad it grinds to a halt.
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 on a Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 with an intel core 2 duo
> > processor.  I know it has over a gig of memory.  There's no reason for it to bog
> > down on a render like that.
>
> That definitely depends on the scene you're rendering, most notably its
> radiosity settings.
>
> I once designed a scene that turned out to require so maddeningly high
> quality settings that even the 6 GB I have available weren't enough.
> While that scene was /designed/ to be a pathological case, there is the
> definite possibility of achieving such high memory requirements by a
> mere typo in the settings.
>
> Still, are you sure it is POV-Ray memory consumption that's bogging down
> your system?
>
> (OOC, how did you get your hands on beta 39 for Linux in the first
> place? AFAIK there is neither an official Linux build for that beta yet,
> nor a source code release for either Windows or Linux.)

Sorry, my mistake... It's beta 38. I guess I had been assuming I had 39 because
it's the latest linux sources.

As for the settings, they aren't that bad.  count 150, pretrace start 0.02, *end
0.005, everything else is default.  The only thing I can think of, since I
believe I have run radiosity scenes with this compile before, is that it's an
open scene. I was testing whether radiosity would have any effect on my cracked
moon (p.b.i Re: crackling a sphere)

And I am pretty sure it's pov that's to blame, I've tried it twice, and it bogs
down so much it refuses to accept a shutdown command.

Again, sorry for the confusion.

A.D.B.

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On 11/25/2010 01:28 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> And I am pretty sure it's pov that's to blame, I've tried it twice, and it bogs
> down so much it refuses to accept a shutdown command.

http://bugs.povray.org/task/56

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Am 25.11.2010 18:28, schrieb Anthony D. Baye:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Still, are you sure it is POV-Ray memory consumption that's bogging down
>> your system?
> ...
> And I am pretty sure it's pov that's to blame, I've tried it twice, and it bogs
> down so much it refuses to accept a shutdown command.

My question wasn't whether POV-Ray was to blame, but whether POV-Ray 
/memory consumption/ was to blame.

As for inhibiting shutdown - I'm no Linux expert, but I guess you can 
get that with any program that takes some time to stop when politely 
asked to do so, as I don't think shutdown will automatically send a 
SIGKILL. And AFAIK POV-Ray's render threads will not stop before they 
have finished computing the current pixel, so if your scene is 
computationally intensive, shutdown may be delayed even without 
excessive memory consumption.

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