"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote in message 
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>>   Heh... ;)  I've just aborted a 1pps image at 1280x1024... 18hrs, line
> 3...
>
> 1280x1024... have you compensated for the non-4:3 aspect ratio? Just
> checking since some people might not realize that 1280x1024 is not 4:3.
>
>>   It took nearly 20 minutes to abort... (What's with that?)  :o(
>
> Was it thrashing? It could have been trying to free memory.
>


I think it can only abort when it finishes rendering a pixel.  So in your 
case, it took about 20 minutes to render a pixel.  I'm probably commenting 
about something where I'm wrong again, but that never stops me from trying. 
My best guess is that this has to do with threaded execution.  The thread 
probably only checks the abort state after it finishes rendering a pixel.  I 
don't think POV 3.5 acted that way.

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Jeremy
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