On 08/01/2013 08:36 AM, Shay wrote:
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>> "clipka"  wrote in message news:51fa0312@news.povray.org...
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>>> Looks like that's it. Linux-guru diagnosis points to the "OOM killer," a
>>> process that kills other processes when Linux runs out of RAM.
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>> Is that physical RAM or swap space?
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> This is from user timkb4cq on the mepiscommunity.org forum:
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> "There's an old debian bug report about Pov-Ray running out of memory &
> when the user increased the size of his swap file to try to get around
> that it would fail with "killed" instead of "out of memory". I haven't
> found any solution given other than decreasing resolution or installing
> more ram in the box..."
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> Further replies directed me toward the OOM Killer.
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>> (Then again, if you buy more RAM, you might still need to increase the
>> swap partition anyway; AFAIK Linux insists on each page of physical
>> RAM being backed by a page of swap space, so swap space = physical
>> memory is the absolute minimum.)
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> I learn something new every day. No time to fool with it at the moment.
> I allow myself about 20 minutes a day to mess with anything computer
> related at home.
>
> -Shay
If this system /isn't/ your primary, perhaps there are other services 
that can be turned off to regain some overhead ... X11, mysql, file 
system indexing service(s)

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