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- 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
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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
-