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Article #2025Arrgh - Renderman is crashing - HELP
From: Steve Ludtke
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:00
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:00
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For the last few days I've been working on a molecule display app using renderman. It's now working perfectly, with one exception. Whenever I try to draw a large molecule (300-400 spheres), renderman chokes. I get a message on the console about renderman losing it's connection to the window server or something. After digging around the filesystem for a while, I located the place where the renderman daemon writes ITS errors, and discovered a variety of messages all boiling down to "out of memory", including some that explain why it can't connect to the window server (memory problems again). Thinking back, I remember similar problems when I tried to put too many spheres in when debugging Plot3D. Is there any way to increase the amount of memory the renderman daemon has available to it??? NeXT's complete lack of documentation doesn't help the situation at all! Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated! ------------- Steve Ludtke Frustrated 3D programmer steve@ion.rice.edu ludtke@physics.rice.edu stevel@alumni.caltech.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news From: steve@ion.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke) Subject: Arrgh - Renderman is crashing - HELP Message-ID: <Bz5rC9.1A9@rice.edu> Keywords: 3d,molecule,renderman,help Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: steve@ion.rice.edu Organization: Rice University Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:00:08 GMT Lines: 19