Kenneth wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Christoph, that works!!  Instead of 10 minutes, it now takes less
> than 10 seconds.  Not bad!!  And without crashing the computer.  : )

Just to make this clear - this was not intended as a suggestion for 
normal operation.  It was just meant to illustrate that the long time 
required to stop a render is not inevitable in general but only when you 
don't want to terminate the process at the same time.  There is no point 
in using the a GUI version of POV-Ray if you stop the render by killing 
the program.

> Stopping a render like this does raise a question in my mind, though: If
> POV-Ray normally takes time to "clean out" (or "make available again"?) the
> many small fragments of hard drive memory it has used, am I creating
> "other" problems by terminating POV this way? 

In any modern OS when a process is terminated - no matter which way - 
the allocated memory gets freed automatically (more precise: the address 
space of the process simply ceases to exist).

Christoph

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