I have a machine with 48 gb memory. My Corona .02 crashes with the "Bad allocation" and "Halt! Exception time!" a little too often.
It seems like I hit a total memory roof around 31 Gb and then the render crashes. 3ds max uses only about 22 gb when I get back to see the crash. Maybe it peaks before that? I haven't been able to babysit the Task Manager to see if it fills my entire memory.
The render is 6667px * 4000px. I know I have rendered a LOT larger renders on That Other Renderer. Is Corona more memory intensive? The scene is a simple gaming keyboard with very few polygons, around 300k before subdivision. I do use the OpenSubdiv modifier on some things though, can that be a problem? I have noticed that OpenSubdiv lags incredibly in 3ds max 2015.
Incredibly compressed pic attached.