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- From: patrick@dabba.graphics.cornell.edu (Patrick Heynen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Arrgh - Renderman is crashing - HELP
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:44:28 GMT
- Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
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- Message-ID: <1gdq0cINN31c@loon.graphics.cornell.edu>
- References: <Bz5rC9.1A9@rice.edu>
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- Keywords: 3d,molecule,renderman,help
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- In article <Bz5rC9.1A9@rice.edu> steve@ion.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke) writes:
- >
- > 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!
-
- This is a bug in the QRman server- A real pain. You can't really play around
- with large data sets because all of a sudden, QRman can't handle it anymore and
- messes up the window server, and woops... there goes the window server!! Really
- annoying, and kinda makes you wonder how robust and useful QRman really is. I
- haven't been able to do anything 'real' on it yet!!
-
- BTW, Dave Springer @ NeXT is 'aware of this problem,' and has been trying to
- track it down for the last month or so. My bet is we're not gonna see any real
- fix before 3.1.
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- Patrick Heynen Program of Computer Graphics
- Cornell University
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- patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu
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