I have a large scene file that causes a memory leak in the SSE2 version of 
beta3.  The first rendering uses up to 300MB of memory which stays allocated 
even when the render is done and I close the output window.  After the 
second rendering, pvengin-sse32.exe has 470MB allocated.  I am rendering 
using the standard ini file with "+fn +w800 +h600" as my options.

There is also a second issue that POV-Ray does not seem to give up when it 
cannot allocate more memory.  When I ran my system out of memory running 
POV-Ray, it just unallocates a chunk of 30MB or so then reallocates it in an 
infinite loop.  When I clicked stop, POV-Ray took its time with the swap 
file, but eventually stopped.  When I then clicked the close button (X in 
top right), I got the error message posted in beta-test.binaries with this 
subject.


I am working on isolating the problematic code.  It is a rather simple scene 
with:
1) just a couple area lights unioned with media in a difference of cylinders
2) a LOT of cylinders unioned together with individual pigments made using 
rand
3) some boxes.

If there is a known issue with any of these features, I will stop hunting 
for the problem, otherwise, I will trim the scene to the minimum cause.

-Nathan

WinXP Pro SP2
1GB (2x512MB) RAM
Pentium 4M 2.2GHz

PovRay 3.7.0.beta3.icl8-sse2.win32

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