[frosty_ramen]

I have a render farm of 4 computers, with a 3 comp setup 2 would send and one would receive. Now that i have added a 4th comp 2 are sending and 2 are receiving. This phase has lasted for 30 minutes, the rendering phase lasted only 34minutes. the file size is 1,819kb, i have a total of 24cores rendering and one is a bran new I7. the output file should be about 130,000kb. so what is the delay?


thanks
Dan

[Bubbaloo]

Check all of your nodes to see if one has frozen or crashed.

[frosty_ramen]

all nodes say render finished successfully.

[Bubbaloo]

You can find the individual mxi's and manually merge them if they all finished correctly.

[frosty_ramen]

i suppose, would all nodes then save to the same location or would i have to copy all 4 files from the separate machines?

[frosty_ramen]

this is just odd. before i added the I7 the initial receiving mxs phase was very short, now it takes a 5-15 minutes! what is going on? is it possible that this is a license issue?

[Bubbaloo]

copy all 4 files from the separate machines

^ There's your answer. ^

[Bubbaloo]

this is just odd. before i added the I7 the initial receiving mxs phase was very short, now it takes a 5-15 minutes! what is going on? is it possible that this is a license issue?

What OS is the new i7 running? Could it be a firewall or antivirus?

[frosty_ramen]

the i7 os is xp64,
i found if i remove my cpu from the assigned to cpus then all delays and errors go away. but this didn't happen till i added the i7? oh by the way manually merging the renders will not really be an option, i have about 100 renders to do by tuesday, and if i had to manually merge 4 mxi per render