Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 
> 
> Edmund Urbani wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I rendered the patio-radio.pov example (with somewhat tweaked radiosity
>> settings for higher quality) at a resolution of 2048x1536 with AA. It
>> took about 3 days on my Athlon/500 and all the time the amount of memory
>> used by povray was steadily increasing (to about 200MB).
>> Looks like a memory leak to me (or is there a good reason why povray
>> takes up more and more memory during rendering?).
> 
> This is perfectly natural with radiosity and 'always_sample' on (default),
> samples taken during final trace are continuously stored for possible
> later reuse.  If you have problems with that either use 'always_sample
> off' or render in several parts.
> 
> Christoph
> 
No problem with that (my Athlon's got 256MB Ram and I'm not planning to 
render with any higher quality settings). I was just wondering whether it 
was a leak. 

Thanks for the quick reply!

 Edmund

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