"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> [GDS|Entropy] <gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> > I don't understand why I'm getting those errors then... It will suck up
2gb
> > of ram and then it dies, sometimes catastrophically. I have like 80gb
free
> > on disk too.

>   It would be possible to address more data by using 64-bit addresses
> (which is how eg. files of over 4GB are handled), but in a 32-bit
> computer managing 64-bit addresses will impose a speed penalty, as

When working with swap files, there is no speed penalty (nothing appreciable
anyway), whether it's 2GB, 2TB or 2EB.

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