[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.

  You have a 32-bit computer and you are running the 32-bit povray
executable, yes? 32-bit programs cannot allocate more than 2 GB
(or in Windows, if you turn on some setting, 3GB) of memory. It's
a question of adressable space.

  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
every operation requiring memory access or even just copying these
addresses around involves extra steps. This would also require some
heavy refactoring of the entire POV-Ray source code.

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                                                          - Warp

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