[znouza]

I've started rendering yesterday night:

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znouza@ipd:$ time bin/mxcl -mxs:flakon.mxs -res:1280x1000 -time:2000 -th:4 -o:/home/znouza/public_html/flakon.jpg

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  MAXWELL RENDER (M~R) version 1_2_2b_beta
  MAXWELL Console Application version 1_2_1_beta
    (C) 2004 Next Limit Technologies

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>> Num processors: 4

Reading MXS File: flakon.mxs
MXS file read successfully

Loading Bitmaps...
>> Checking Data...
>> Preprocessing Data...

 == Render settings ==

resolution:  1280 x 1000
maximum desired time: 33h 20m 0s
threads: 4
target sampling level: 25.00

>> Starting Render

>> Start Voxelization...
>> End Voxelization...


[0h 0m 4s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00
[0h 0m 42s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00
[0h 1m 23s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00
[0h 2m 8s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.94
[0h 2m 56s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 2.73
[0h 3m 45s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 4.48
[0h 4m 34s] of [33h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 6.21


real    487m29.112s
user    0m0.140s
sys     0m0.010s

and stopped todays morning. See the time and sampling level reached, with real execution time. If I run the same MXS on my p4 box, all is ok.

mxs file: download

some specs:

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Linux ipd 2.4.24-ow1 #4 SMP Fri Jan 23 15:33:10 CET 2004 i686 unknown

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MemTotal:      2069516 kB
MemFree:        333068 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:         84240 kB
Cached:        1227652 kB
SwapCached:        260 kB
Active:         682580 kB
Inactive:       828364 kB
HighTotal:     1179624 kB
HighFree:       237876 kB
LowTotal:       889892 kB
LowFree:         95192 kB
SwapTotal:     2048152 kB
SwapFree:      2047892 kB

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processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2389.529
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips        : 4771.02

the same for proc 1-4

image from render (click for original size):



so.. what's wrong?

[znouza]

Hi znouza, this is a known problem with unix platforms.
We are working to figure out why tha time is not being well calculated on unix platforms.

Hi Pablo,

but this is not time issue. Situation: 4proc xeon, render started, but after 487min .. is reached sampling level 6 only.

tom

[znouza]

And i suppose you get better samplinglevels on windows.
At the moment i'm using the sampling level to control the render time, is not as exact as render time, but for me is working.
I don't get this horrible results, i'll tryyour mxs file as soon as possible on my linux box.

fine.

tom