"stephen parkinson" <ste### [at] zmemw16demoncouk> wrote in message
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> JWV wrote:
> >>
> >>>The level-4 render was to much for my laptop :-(. It used 2GB of memory
> >>>while parsing, and it wasn't finished jet.
> >>>
> >>>I will post the source in p.b.sf if someone wants to give it a try on a
> >>>machine with a LOT of memory  :-).
> >>>
> >>>Greetings JWV
> >>
> >>
> >>That looks cool!  I might give it a try if you post the source.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> i'm peeved / tee'd off
>
> dual 2.8 xeon, 2gb ram, explicitly added 2gb of swap space above its
> norm of 1gb and still ran out of space with recursion level of 4
>
> anyone got a machine that can render it ?

I've got 1 gig RAM and 6 gig of page file.  I was watching the memory usage
and it claimed out of memory at 2gig.  I seem to recall hearing something
about a 2gig maximum of memory for an application regardless of the total
amount available (Windows).  Does anyone else know something about that?

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