I just love Linux....
I actually can leave a render in background for all that time, and I don't have
to bother..
oh, yes, it's niced, andd I know I risk a crash to ruin it all (continue trace
:-).
The most important fact for me now is to keep the renders on a low memory
consumption rate...   nothing extreme there... but media can do well...



"Rick (Kitty5)" wrote:
> 
> funny, i have actually concidered getting a cheap 486DX100 / P90 just to
> leave renders running on... hmm
> 
> Rick
> 
> Eric Freeman <eri### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
> news:37239be4.0@news.povray.org...
> > Scott McDonald <sco### [at] metrolinkcom> wrote in message
> > news:371406BC.B6D94EE1@metrolink.com...
> > > Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Oh by the way...It took about 30 min to render on my PC... 50 mgz
> > celeron,
> > > > (400 overclocked) and it was converted to Jpeg by adobe photoshop.
> > >
> > > 30 minutes is the forever it took to render?  <THWAP!>
> > > Interesting piece, would be more interesting with a bit of a ground
> > > texture and a sky though.  And of course would take much longer to
> > > render, but I think it'd be worth it.
> > >
> > > (30 minutes, geez, the candle dragon pic takes 30 minutes on my k6/2 333
> > > at 512x384)
> >
> > I got sick of pix using media tying up my computer, so I dug my old 486-33
> > out of the closet.  The pic it is rendering now is flying along at about
> one
> > pixel per minute.  The final image (640*480) will take about 200 days to
> > render !!!!!
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > -------------------
> > "The best trick the devil ever pulled was
> > convincing people he didn't exist..."
> > - Verbal Kent.
> > -------------------
> > http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
> >
> >
> >
> >

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                "Marian"
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