"Tony[B]" <ben### [at] panamac-comnet> writes:

> > You're using radiosity. The radiosity samples are stored in an octree
> > for faster access. Seems you ran out of memory and when (M)POV took
> > another radiosity sample (during the actual rendering) and tried to
> > store it, it could not 'allocate 144 for [the] octree block.'
> 
> Why can't this [friggin'] octree be stored to the hard disk instead of RAM?

Increase your swap space! By this you use the hard disc instead of RAM.
It is however up to the OS which parts of the memory are transferred to
the disc. Today's hard discs are so large that a GB of swap space is
feasible.

I hope this helps

Thomas



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