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Arrgh - Renderman is crashing - HELP

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From: Steve Ludtke
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!
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Steve Ludtke		Frustrated 3D programmer
steve@ion.rice.edu
ludtke@physics.rice.edu
stevel@alumni.caltech.edu
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From: steve@ion.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke)
Subject: Arrgh  - Renderman is crashing - HELP
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:00:08 GMT
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