nowadays I use a little shell-switch program, with povray as shell,
gives me a bit more priority to pov, as well as reduced memory useage..

As for windows, I've noticed that it has a tendency to want as much swap
as the memory it uses, since it seldom bothers to release memory in the
swap, but simply allocates more. don't blame me for any errors in my
reasoning, blame vapour-soft.

//Spider

Phoenix wrote:
> 
> 'T was on Fri, 12 Feb 1999 02:18:44 -0800,
> that Ken wrote:
> >   What I don't understand is with 128 megs of ram memory on board why would my
> > swap file ever grow so large when the system memory is sufficient to cover the
> > use of the programs being run ? I know the speed increase of using ram memory
> > over swap file memory is significant and would prefer to run in that environment.
> 
> Start up the system monitor and see how much memory is used at the
> moment. You'd be surprised to see how much memory is already hogged up at
> startup...
> 
> It's a Windows thing. Don't try to understand it...   :|
> 
> Phoenix
> 
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