Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Is POV available with SMP-support? I've got dual pII350 and would like
> to maximize the use of the cpu's while rendering :)

POV-Ray was not written to support threading (remember, it derives from
DKB-Trace which started on the Amiga in the early '90's).  At this
point, the best you can do is to run multiple instances of POV-Ray (one
doing the top of the image and the other doing the bottom) and let the
OS handle load distribution across multiple CPU's.  This is, I'll
confess, inconvenient and inefficient in its use of memory.  PVMPOV does
some of this more transparently, but it hasn't yet been updated to
support for POV-Ray 3.1 features.

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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