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Timer is too fast!

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:30 am
by nik_h
I've completed a couple of renders recently using the FormZ plugin and noticed that the render time reported in the OSX console is wrong.

I have a render running as we speak which was started at approx. 2pm Yesterday. The console is currently reporting (as of 10.30am today) that the render has been running for 40h 27m!!

Has this anything to do with the number of threads? I'm using a Dual 2.5 G5 and using 2 threads. Is the 40h time that is reported the time that a single thread would take to reach the same level?

Cheers,

Nik

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:12 am
by Jake256
adehus wrote:It's a known issue that the clock is off with dual processor Macs. You can divide by 2 and get a *rough* estimation of the elapsed time... really the only way to get a good idea is to actually time it manually.
Hmm... I posted that same question in the Lightwave Maxwell forum and no one new anything about it. Has this issue been posted somewhere before?