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From: Matt Giuer
Subject: odd problem
Date: 27 Feb 1999 19:00:35
Message: <36D8B1CF.95436604@ij.net>

I have a rather complex scene (
http://members.aol.com/jull43/giants5a.jpg ) that takes either 3
or 9 hours to render. Using Win95 with 128M RAM and POV 3.1.
(333MHz, a quite fast HD but those should have nothing to do with
it.)

	The difference is that if I do a lot of other things while
waiting for renders including internet surfing. Now that sounds
reasonable but if I stop everything from working and disconnect
OR shut everthing down leaving only POV it takes the long time.

	If I reboot first, and then run POV only it takes the shorter
time. 

	I have monitored RAM usage (for swap file slow downs) but it
never falls below 50Meg no matter what the conditions. I can see
fragmented RAM causing a little slow down but not 300%. Has
anyone else see this? 
-- 
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http://members.aol.com/jull43

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From: Edward Wedig
Subject: Re: odd problem
Date: 4 Mar 1999 00:11:14
Message: <36DDCFB2.254E2280@kreber.com>

Matt Giuer wrote:
> 
> I have a rather complex scene (
> http://members.aol.com/jull43/giants5a.jpg ) that takes either 3
> or 9 hours to render. Using Win95 with 128M RAM and POV 3.1.
> (333MHz, a quite fast HD but those should have nothing to do with
> it.)
> 
>         The difference is that if I do a lot of other things while
> waiting for renders including internet surfing. Now that sounds
> reasonable but if I stop everything from working and disconnect
> OR shut everthing down leaving only POV it takes the long time.
> 
>         If I reboot first, and then run POV only it takes the shorter
> time.
> 
>         I have monitored RAM usage (for swap file slow downs) but it
> never falls below 50Meg no matter what the conditions. I can see
> fragmented RAM causing a little slow down but not 300%. Has
> anyone else see this?
> --
> -=-=-=-
> http://members.aol.com/jull43

I've never seen a problem like this with POV, but my friends CD burner
has a similar problem. The computer overheats, and then takes longer to
burn a CD than when it's cold. 

You might try opening your case and seeing if that affects the rendering time.

-Ed
-- 
Edward Wedig
aka Doc Brown
Graphic Artist, 3D Designer, Gamemaster, Nice Guy
http://www.netwalk.com/~docbrown

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