Hi,

I'm trying to process a large file (about 550 MB) generated by a simple
program. There is nothing strange : one camera, one light, and lots of
triangles with predefined textures from stones.inc.

No error but ... no output file. And that's the problem.

I don't think that the export is faulty since it works fine for smaller
scenes.

For information, the computer is an Athlon with 768 MB of RAM and 5GB of
swap and the system is a recent version of linux.
Of course it is far from ideal: it should be very slow but OK.

The file contains about 2 100 000 triangles.
The version of povray is 3.6.1 (both pre-compiled and source version).

I put the text ouput below.

Does anyone have any idea?


Thanks,
Youp


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Here is the session:
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[youp@felix:~] ~/PovRay/bin/povray -D large.pov
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (g++ 3.3.2 @
 i686-pc-linux-gnu)
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
 youp@felix
 The POV-Ray Team(tm) is not responsible for supporting this version.
POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team
Copyright 2003-2004 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.

Primary POV-Ray 3.5/3.6 Developers: (Alphabetically)
  Chris Cason         Thorsten Froehlich  Nathan Kopp         Ron Parker

Contributing Authors: (Alphabetically)
  Steve Anger         Eric Barish         Dieter Bayer        Steve A.
Bennett
  David K. Buck       Nicolas Calimet     Aaron A. Collins    Chris Dailey
  Steve Demlow        Andreas Dilger      Alexander Enzmann   Dan Farmer
  Mark Gordon         Christoph Hormann   Mike Hough          Chris Huff
  Kari Kivisalo       Lutz Kretzschmar    Jochen Lippert      Pascal
Massimino
  Jim McElhiney       Douglas Muir        Juha Nieminen       Bill Pulver
  Eduard Schwan       Wlodzimierz Skiba   Robert Skinner      Yvo
Smellenbergh
  Zsolt Szalavari     Scott Taylor        Massimo Valentini   Timothy Wegner
  Drew Wells          Chris Young

Other contributors are listed in the documentation.

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
  ZLib 1.2.1, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
  LibPNG 1.2.5, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
  LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
  LibTIFF 3.6.1, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On
Parsing Options
  Input file: large.pov (compatible to version 3.61)
  Remove bounds........On
  Split unions.........Off
  Library paths:
    /home/youp/PovRay//share/povray-3.6
    /home/youp/PovRay//share/povray-3.6/ini
    /home/youp/PovRay//share/povray-3.6/include
Output Options
  Image resolution 320 by 240 (rows 1 to 240, columns 1 to 320).
  Output file: /home/youp/large.png, 24 bpp PNG
  Graphic display......Off
  Mosaic preview.......Off
  CPU usage histogram..Off
  Continued trace......Off
Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
  Light Buffer.........On
  Vista Buffer.........On   Draw Vista Buffer....Off
  Antialiasing.........Off
  Clock value:    0.000  (Animation off)

  0:04:58 Parsing 67466K tokens
Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours  4 minutes 58 seconds (298 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours  4 minutes 58 seconds (298 seconds)
[youp@felix:~]

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