[w i l l]

I'm thinking that maybe xp64 (installed on a mac) is not rendering to its full capabilities - its slower for rendering than when i was using mac OS.

If i have 4 renders running at once the CPU usuage is at a maximum but the PF Usage graph stays low at 1.44 GB. Is there something wrong here - how can i optimise it?

This is a mac pro with 4 gig of ram.

[ivox3]

New or old Mac Pro ..... ?

If it's an 8 core, ....are they all burning ?

[w i l l]

Its the quad core - they are all at max CPU usage in the task manager (4 graphs) but the PF Usage is low.

[ivox3]

Well, ...that's kind of how you want it to be, ...meaning, ..it's using actual ram vs. the virtual memory -- of which I never understood anyway exactly why any paging file is being used when a scene doesn't require it ??


Even in Win 64/32 if I remove the paging file altogether, ...it still indicates that it's using one !

I'd love it if someone could take the mystery out of that one for me .....

[w i l l]

oooo k. How much memory should mxcl use? Mine shows about 300,000k (in processes).

[ivox3]

It's scene dependent .... and I have no real references for poly's / memory allocation .....

You just have to kind of pay attention to what mxcl.exe is doing with particular scenes to get a general feel.

Sorry Will .....that's the best I have on that one.