P Brewer wrote:
> I'm creating an image that involves a large patch of grass. This eats up a
> bit of my RAM, but the image will parse and start rendering just fine.
> Unfortunately fter about 8 hours into the render it quits with a memory
> error "unable to allocate.."
> 
> This is the second image I've had the problem on. Both high resolution with
> HDR environments and radiosity. I'm starting to think that it's the
> additional samples of radiosity during the rendering that's causing the
> memory overload.
> 
> I've restarted the rendering with always resample set to off and hope this
> will fix it but won't know for about 8 hours if it did.

It might or might not, depending on your settings, scene and your memory 
limits.

You have two options:

- use more reasonable radiosity settings (if the render takes more than 
8 hours with just a patch of grass they most likely are not).
- make more memory available to POV-Ray (by changing your OS settings or 
getting a computer system with larger address space).

Christoph

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