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29 Sep 2024 17:18:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: stupid out of memory errors  
From: Fredrik Eriksson
Date: 8 Mar 2009 11:59:39
Message: <op.uqhddtu57bxctx@e6600>
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:08:22 +0100, [GDS|Entropy]  
<gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Eero Ahonen" <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote in message
> news:49b3d036$1@news.povray.org...
>> [GDS|Entropy] wrote:
>>> I *really* hate those.
>>> Can't pov just use a freakin swap file?? Grrr....
>>
>> Yes, it can. Tested with 12G consuming render and 1G of physical RAM :).
>>
>> -Aero
>>
>
> 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.

Because you are using a 32-bit OS. With a few tweaks you could push the  
limit to 3 GB, but that is as much as you can get for a single 32-bit  
application.


-- 
FE


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