Here's my current radiosity block that crashed:

global_settings {
    radiosity {
      pretrace_start 0.1
      pretrace_end   0.001
      count 50

      nearest_count 5
      error_bound .15
      recursion_limit 1

      low_error_factor .01
      gray_threshold 0.0
      minimum_reuse 0.015
      brightness 1

      adc_bailout 0.01/2

      normal on
      adaptive 1

      save_file "golf_rad.rad"

  }}

The scene consists of three golf balls and a putter sitting on a 2000 blade
square patch of grass mesh copied 580 times to fill the visible scene. I'm
using a focal blur of 90 samples, and the above radiosity. I'm rendering at
1680x1050. Is there any improvement I can make to my radiosity settings to
ease memory usage?




>
> It might or might not, depending on your settings, scene and your memory
> limits.
>
> You have two options:
>
> - use more reasonable radiosity settings (if the render takes more than
> 8 hours with just a patch of grass they most likely are not).
> - make more memory available to POV-Ray (by changing your OS settings or
> getting a computer system with larger address space).
>
> Christoph
>

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