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Hey All:
I've looked through the FAQ and help files for mac povray, but I have yet to
find an answer to a minor issue. I'm using povray to render three
dimensional fractals generated by a perl script, which means that some of
the scene files I'm trying to render are nearly half a gigabyte in size.
Povray has been trying to open the last file for about four continuous
hours. Is there a theoretical limit to the size of scene files that can be
rendered? Or is this behavior normal with massive scene files?
Sincerely,
Brandan
Mac Povray 3.5 RC1
OS X 10.2.6
TiBook 800mhz
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In article <web.3f42694e93d3cd1f2bb6ab5a0@news.povray.org> , "Brandanbrot"
<nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Povray has been trying to open the last file for about four continuous
> hours. Is there a theoretical limit to the size of scene files that can be
> rendered? Or is this behavior normal with massive scene files?
Well, how much memory does your system have? If the scene does not fit into
memory, parts will be paged out to harddisk by the system. This will slow
down parsing a lot.
Apart from than that, on Mac OS X an application gets to use up to 3 GB of
memory for their own purpose (of a maximum of 4 GB possible in total that
can be accessed).
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich
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I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
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