16GB are my usual breakfast, I’ll fill that quickly after booting… I’m happy that I got 64GB, though even that is often used up, thus I sometimes wish for 128Gb though (and for running somewhat capable local LLMs 512GB would be even better…).
Bottomline: ypu can basically never have enough RAM…
Trying to ray-trace a 512,000x256,000 image using Chunky. I had to split it into 16 parts to reduce the RAM to a sane amount (in 2018, it may have been optimised since).
I was trying to find the limit for a single png, and I think I found it.
No
It turns out the computer mostly freezes once you go past 200% RAM used.
I am equally disgusted and intrigued
what is using so much ram?
16GB are my usual breakfast, I’ll fill that quickly after booting… I’m happy that I got 64GB, though even that is often used up, thus I sometimes wish for 128Gb though (and for running somewhat capable local LLMs 512GB would be even better…).
Bottomline: ypu can basically never have enough RAM…
Trying to ray-trace a 512,000x256,000 image using Chunky. I had to split it into 16 parts to reduce the RAM to a sane amount (in 2018, it may have been optimised since).
I was trying to find the limit for a single png, and I think I found it.
I’d guess that there are probably utilities to export the world file to POV-Ray or Blender or something. They might be able to scale better.