Ken wrote in message <379C255E.B4547297@pacbell.net>...
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>This question pertains to the way Pov-Ray for windows reports peak memory.
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> A scene I rendered this evening had 120k objects. I have 128 megs of
>physical ram memory and about 250 megs of swap space available. The
>128 megs of ram were consumed quickly and the swap file grew to nearly
>220 megs before it finaly finished parsing the file.

Since you are using Windows, at least 70 MB of memory or virtual memory is
in use by Windows.  By default, Windows uses 16 MB of memory + 50% of all
memory over 16 MB.

Mark

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