POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : Massive Scene Files : Re: Massive Scene Files Server Time
5 May 2024 19:01:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Massive Scene Files  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 19 Aug 2003 16:53:46
Message: <3f428e5a$1@news.povray.org>
In article <web.3f42694e93d3cd1f2bb6ab5a0@news.povray.org> , "Brandanbrot"
<nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Povray has been trying to open the last file for about four continuous
> hours.  Is there a theoretical limit to the size of scene files that can be
> rendered?  Or is this behavior normal with massive scene files?

Well, how much memory does your system have?  If the scene does not fit into
memory, parts will be paged out to harddisk by the system.  This will slow
down parsing a lot.

Apart from than that, on Mac OS X an application gets to use up to 3 GB of
memory for their own purpose (of a maximum of 4 GB possible in total that
can be accessed).

    Thorsten

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