hi,

William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 8/10/20 6:47 AM, jr wrote:
> ...
> > have never seen an "Operation timed out" error, and searching the (installed)
> > documentation gave no clue.  it would be useful to hear from people who know the
> > code, in which circumstances/situations that error can happen.
> >
> Something is running too slow is the non helpful, short answer, I didn't
> post yesterday - because it sound to me ears a little snarky despite
> being accurate... :-)
>
> Reasons could be many. Paging (using too much memory). Systems is
> otherwise overloaded etc - or just slow.

after having read through the threads referenced in earlier post, I'm
almostready to add a rant of my own.  about how people who migrate to GNU/Linux
are often unaware that now they must, on occasion, don the system administrator
hat.  but I won't.  ;-)

> ...

snipped the explanatory part, for which thanks.

> Aside 2:
> I don't much understand the message passing system code, but it looks
> like most information internally is getting passed around using it. I
> think the idea was to eventually be able to support rendering remotely
> on a large cluster of machines with a single controlling gui/entity.

that is interesting.  if instead of "large cluster" one had this capability for
the LAN.  I'm sure that many users, like me, have more than one computer on the
LAN, and it would be way cool if POV-Ray could exploit that.

> ...

regards, jr.

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