mxcl locked up during coop render - ??? - Maxwell Render

mxcl locked up during coop render - ???#172926

By b-kandor - Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:29 pm

- Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:29 pm #172926

Hi,

I have many hours invested into a coop render. For some reason mxcl locked up on the manager computer and I had to kill it. It wont restart either.

All (3) nodes are still rendering fine but how can I save my work in a mergable format. The last time I manually merged with v1.1 I received a seed error.

hmmmmmmmm.

#172933

By b-kandor - Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:16 pm

- Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:16 pm #172933

Well, for reference the coop in v1.1 is working pretty well.

After crashing mxcl, I manually stopped each node and when I was able to restart mxcl - goto the network tab - re-enter local ip and connect to manager it showed the 3 nodes happily merging away. Excellent.

I am concerned about the merge time - almost 1 hour for 3 nodes with multilight on an 1800 x 1080 image. I'm on a gigabit lan so bandwidth is not an issue. In fact for large chunks of the merge process virtually nothing seems to happen, no network activity and only 3 or 4% processor usage.

Kandor