[sam7]

Hi!

I just needed to test this 'k3dsurf' MathModeling software. I'm far from what master jotero did, but you have to start at somepoint



just one strange thing:
The M~W stopwhatch was wrong...
This was console-output this morning:
[2h 54m 43s] of [100h 0m 0s] , current sampling level : 14.56

BUT mxs creation was at 01:46 and the Time when looking at the M~W window was 8:36 ... for me that makes about 5:30 ...

Is it because I use 4 threads on a dual xeon system??

[andronikos916]

I can not understand you preblem with time exactly. But Mxs creation or Voxelization is not multithreaded yet.

Also I recomend to use -th:16 if you have Dual Xeons HT, you will see some speed increase.

Very nice renderings...

cy,
Andronikos

[sam7]

What I just want to say ist, that it seemed like M~R is not calculating the rendering times... or let's say thats what it looks like...
But it's nothing to really worry about

th:16 helps!? Good to know

I guess I'll start some performance tests

[rendertaxi]

andronikos, I experienced setting threads to 16 in the plugin will give me 8 threads at render time.. (shown in the viewer console)
i got 2 xeons ht in that machine. why does maxwell set the number of threads down by itself?
anyone with the same experience?

alex

[rivoli]

andronikos, I experienced setting threads to 16 in the plugin will give me 8 threads at render time..

same here, i can't use more than 8 threads either. not that i'm really concerned, i think i remember juan saying to use the correct number of threads (4 for a dual xeon ht) to get the best performance.

[andronikos916]

you need to edit the mxcl option

add the -th:16

so you should have -d -th:16

cy,
Andronikos

[giacob]

i am afraid that u cannot use more than the thread that your license allows u to use , that is 8 if i remember well
so writing -th:16 cannot effect the render at all andronikos u might as well write -th:8

[andronikos916]

OOpsss...different beta tester license sorry for confusing you guys then...

cy,
Andronikos

[sam7]

@andronikos916: "different beta tester license "??
Is that what you have!?


I tested it:
More Threads = better speed?

[rendertaxi]

OOpsss...different beta tester license....

hmm. i want that too!

[andronikos916]

the difference is very small... Not always is benefitial to use more threads...

cy,
Andronikos