I am having similar problems.  I am trying to create a highly-detailed
village, which will ultimately have a massive load of objects.  For now I'm
less worried about speed of rendering as I am of actually having the entire
village, indoors and out, available for a render.  It didn't take me long
to realize, with a quick ground-work test (literally) using fracHill, that
too many objects just won't do well.

I would love it if POVRay could cache out work to a file so it can handle
the more absurdly complex images... In the meantime, I am also looking for
solutions to organize a massive project like this one.

Josh English wrote:

> I am a long time Mac user and I'm glad to see that we've got our own
> group now. I hadn't heard of it until today. I also hadn't heardof the
> unofficial version on smellenbergh's page until today, so I'll look into
> that as well.
>
> I do have a question, tho. I am working on a scene for the IRTC and I'm
> using the tree macro file that Gilles Tran uploaded a few weeks ago. On
> my windows machine I can have multiple trees without any problem, but on
> my iMac with 64Mgs of RAM, virtual memory set to 128 Megs, I need to
> give POV-Ray 110 MB of RAM in order to render three trees and the memory
> peaks during parsing. If I add another tree, the number of objects gets
> absudrly high and the programwill crash.
>
> Is anyone else have this kind of memory trouble on their Macs? And does
> anyone know if the unofficial version would have this problem?
>
> Josh English
> eng### [at] spiritonecom

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