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Long Sending/Receiving Phase
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:56 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:21 pm
by Bubbaloo
Check all of your nodes to see if one has frozen or crashed.
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:45 pm
by frosty_ramen
all nodes say render finished successfully.
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:50 pm
by Bubbaloo
You can find the individual mxi's and manually merge them if they all finished correctly.
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:59 pm
by 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?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:24 pm
by 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?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:50 pm
by Bubbaloo
frosty_ramen wrote:copy all 4 files from the separate machines
^ There's your answer. ^
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:51 pm
by Bubbaloo
frosty_ramen wrote: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?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:48 pm
by 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
