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From: Geoff Reidy
Subject: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5
Date: 5 Aug 2002 12:25:00
Message: <3d4ea6dc@news.povray.org>
Hi all,

With the official binary I have had no problems, though it is slow.

I compiled my own and whether I compile static or dynamic, with or 
without any optimisation it always dies trying to render benchmark.pov. 
I have tried Ken's and Micha's binaries and they also die on benchmark.pov.
I can render a 40x30 image but not a 400x300.
The program either seg faults or locks the box up totally.
Many other scenes will render ok.

I tried compiling the program with electric fence. This shows no errors 
on simpler scenes but I do not have enough memory to render 
benchmark.pov while using efence.

Anyone else see this problem?

Regards,
Geoff


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From: Micha Riser
Subject: Re: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5
Date: 5 Aug 2002 14:38:22
Message: <3d4ec61e@news.povray.org>
What CPU?

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From: geoff
Subject: Re: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5
Date: 5 Aug 2002 15:13:56
Message: <3d4ece74@news.povray.org>
On 08/06/2002 04:38 AM, Micha Riser wrote:
> What CPU?
> 

It's an Athlon 2000 XP running Mandrake 8.2.
gcc 3.1.1 or 3.2 makes no difference.
Motherboard A7V333 with kernel  2.4.19-rc3-ac2 compiled with gcc3.1.1
Seems stable otherwise, quake3 will run as long as I can be bothered 
letting it run, ditto memtest86.

Geoff


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From: Micha Riser
Subject: Re: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5
Date: 5 Aug 2002 15:48:37
Message: <3d4ed695@news.povray.org>
I just did a 400x300 rendering of benchmark.pov which worked fine.

geoff wrote:
> 
> It's an Athlon 2000 XP running Mandrake 8.2.
> gcc 3.1.1 or 3.2 makes no difference.
> Motherboard A7V333 with kernel  2.4.19-rc3-ac2 compiled with gcc3.1.1
> Seems stable otherwise, quake3 will run as long as I can be bothered
> letting it run, ditto memtest86.

Hmm.. strange. Have you tried on a bit-more-official linux kernel? Have you 
tried other sences that use photons (e.g. optics.h)?

- Micha

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From: Geoff Reidy
Subject: Re: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5
Date: 5 Aug 2002 17:12:13
Message: <3d4eea2d@news.povray.org>
On 08/06/2002 05:48 AM, Micha Riser wrote:
> I just did a 400x300 rendering of benchmark.pov which worked fine.
> 
> geoff wrote:
> 
>>It's an Athlon 2000 XP running Mandrake 8.2.
>>gcc 3.1.1 or 3.2 makes no difference.
>>Motherboard A7V333 with kernel  2.4.19-rc3-ac2 compiled with gcc3.1.1
>>Seems stable otherwise, quake3 will run as long as I can be bothered
>>letting it run, ditto memtest86.
> 
> 
> Hmm.. strange. Have you tried on a bit-more-official linux kernel? Have you 
> tried other sences that use photons (e.g. optics.h)?
> 
> - Micha
>


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From: Geoff Reidy
Subject: Re: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5
Date: 6 Aug 2002 08:55:02
Message: <3d4fc726@news.povray.org>
On 08/06/2002 05:48 AM, Micha Riser wrote:
> I just did a 400x300 rendering of benchmark.pov which worked fine.
> 
> geoff wrote:
> 
>>It's an Athlon 2000 XP running Mandrake 8.2.
>>gcc 3.1.1 or 3.2 makes no difference.
>>Motherboard A7V333 with kernel  2.4.19-rc3-ac2 compiled with gcc3.1.1
>>Seems stable otherwise, quake3 will run as long as I can be bothered
>>letting it run, ditto memtest86.
> 
> 
> Hmm.. strange. Have you tried on a bit-more-official linux kernel? Have you 
> tried other sences that use photons (e.g. optics.h)?
> 
> - Micha
> 

I can render optics.pov ok.

I am using such a new kernel because the original Mandrake one doesn't 
have drivers for the southbridge chip on the motherboard but I will give 
it a go when I reboot next.

I noticed you have produced some more binaries so I will try those too.
Cheers for making them available.

Geoff


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