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  Re: Memory limit in 3.5 ?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 27 Feb 2002 10:50:46
Message: <3c7d0056@news.povray.org>
In article <3C7CF4BB.206760DA@obs.univ-lyon1.fr> , Gilles ADAM 
<ga### [at] obsuniv-lyon1fr>  wrote:

> Pov Ray tell me : unable to allocate 1 590 000 000 bytes.
> Why ?

Because applications can't use more than 2 GB each (or less, 2 GB is the
maximum for current Windows versions, Win ME might even support only 2 GB
total).  This one allocation is already 1.5 GB, and if another GB or so is
already used by POV-Ray, there simply isn't enough memory available.

    Thorsten


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