DR - How to disable host machine rendering?
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Hi all, I've been using vray (currently have 1.48.89 installed) for a while, but only recently started using distributed rendering. It's been really hit or miss as I get all my material maps to a common network location. Anyway, the reason I am posting a question is to see if there is a way to have only the slave machine running the rendering since I want to be able to use my host machine for other tasks (without being slowed down with all the cores at full use?) Thanks, Andy
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That is not possible.
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That's what I was afraid of. I've been thinking I may have to transfer vray to my other machine, but was hoping there was a way around it.
However... I did some google searching and learnt somthin. I can set the process affinity to just one core on my host machine. Sort of gets me where I want to be.
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If you tick Low Thread Priority under General Switches - does that not work well for you? Still need more power for the rest of the system?
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Yeah, I've got the low thread priority checked. It may be what I'm looking for is more of an issue with DR. I'm trying to narrow down the variables of my problem, which I had hoped could be solved by sending all the rendering to the slave machine. I don't know if I should start a new thread or if the issue has been addressed by other posts. To wit, I am not consistently getting my dr sent to the slave, so it only runs only on my host machine. I have to go in and "add server" basically each time I want to run DR. It seems it should be able to remember the host from one rendering to another.
(One advice I did see was to make sure the network can handle the load. I've tried now to change network from wireless to wired. I've not noticed a change.)
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That is something I suggest you contact ASGVis about. It might very well be a bug.
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OK - DR problem went away after I loaded a new options file, There was something corrupt in my original visopt file.
As for host machine - it's just kind of annoying that that last bucket sometimes sits there for half a minute after all the buckets on the slave are done. Oh well, certainly better than no DR.
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