POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Megapov crashes when post-processing large images : Re: Megapov crashes (again) Server Time
1 Sep 2024 22:12:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Megapov crashes (again)  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 16 Sep 2000 06:57:46
Message: <39C351B3.75005024@inapg.inra.fr>
Christoph Hormann wrote:

> I just tested a large scene with post process myself because i'm also using NT,
> did not finish it, because after 20 minutes of PP, it had finished mere 7%.  It
> did not crash until then, but the swapfile got 540 Mb large.
>
> In fact NT should not crash because of an application memory leak (it maybe does
> though :-) but in any case, megapov's memory use during post processing seems not
> very efficient.

Possibly I should raise the swap even higher. The strange thing is that I rendered
at least one scene with PP on Megapov 0.3 with a large image size before and didn't
have this problem (but this was a different computer and I don't remember the swap
file setup).
G.


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