I thought some might be interested in knowing that this render *finally*
finished (last night around 11 PM local time).  I actually stopped and
restarted a couple of times (system upgrades, actually), but only had
about 3 hours downtime between the start and the end.

The final hour count was 3153 hours (render time of 131 days 9 hours).  I
did try to run it at the highest processor priority (nice level -19) most
of the time, but didn't run it that way continuously.

I'm now rerunning at a depth of 3; after 15 minutes, it's about a quarter
of the way finished.  I'm going to be interested to see if the differences
are visible at all...

Jim

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