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Hi -

I have Vs rendering a network render that I launched from MXStudio. for some reason In the monitor I get only that the Primary machine's SL, but both are shown as 'RENDERING4 in "state", and the CPU usage of both machines is 100% AND in the temp file of the node machine, it sems that filesare being generated...

what did I do?

I have been recent to network rendering- using it from form Z, but I sometimes lose track of all the options when launching the network render with regard to destination of files produced etc.. Perhaps when tweaking these i also did soemthing that prevent the SL level from showing in theMonitor of my Node Machine.

BTW, the Monitor on BOTH machines corroborate.

I am under deadline, and so I am letting this render continue in the hopes that when i 'STOP' the render, Maxwell will merge the MXI's and and the Image as well, OR I can at least merge the two MXI's manually.

thanks for any help.

-Peter

Can't you preview the render to see how it's progressing?

Also I'm pretty sure you don't need to run the monitor on both machines.

Best,
Jason.

I have had this happen as well. I think I had to merge the files manually.

Hi guys- thanks for the answers and re-assuring. at least i know from A S's reponse that all is not lost!!

best regards-

Peter

Yesterday it happened to me that one of the two nodes stopped reporting to the manager. The node said it was rendering and updated SL and so, but manager didn't get the data. When hitting stop it managed to merge both files though without problem.
You can also stop the job to check if it merges fine and then resume.

Fernando Tella wrote:You can also stop the job to check if it merges fine and then resume.

That's what I'd do.

Hi-

i stopped it- it didn't merge fine. I merged it manually from TEMP files. all is ok. I'll have to do a test file later to see if it repeats. thanks again to all.

Peter