On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:50:22 -0500, Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote:
>I didn't change anything about memory handling, so I don't know why this
>would act differently than the official version.  Did you compile your own
>official version, or download a binary?
>

Right I've now done some extensive experimentation.

I took a scene that will render in Official pov but requires
more memory than I have, so it's just a standard scene with
millions of objects.  In both official and Mega it gives 
me a message telling me that it's run out of memory, no problem.
But when I render a scene with photons and it runs out of memory
while creating the photon data the box freezes completely.

I had to go out (yes actually outside the house) today so I set 
the render running with xmegapov -Imyscene.pov and left it for 
a few hours, it froze, so I thought give it a few hours and it
might sort itself out, but after the screen had cutout I couldn't
even get my display back by pressing the shift key the way I 
normally do.  Before losing the screen and after the freeze 
the mouse pointer wouldn't move, I couldn't Alt-Ctrl-Fn to another
session, I couldn't Alt-Ctrl-Backspace out of X.  

One more thing that I will try is running a scene that has photons,
but runs out of memory before it gets to the point where it starts
to generate the photon data.  I will try this soon, and post the 
results in this thread. 

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