Some frames hanging or not starting, slowing the entire render

[Patrick_Coan]

I'm working with relatively low cost render sequences, maybe 30-50 frames each. 98% of the frames render in the usual time, whereas 1 or 2 frames don't pick up a render machine for a very long while, or the render takes much longer than the rest. There is nothing in particular about these frames that is different from the rest.

So a 3 or 4 minute job ends up taking 20-30 minutes, because of 1 or 2 frames waiting on a machine.

Any help?

[doychin_atanasov]

Hello, Patrick! This is, unfortunately, possible. We're allocating machines fairly between users in Chaos Cloud and apparently sometimes the demand outpaces our supply of rendering machines. It is entirely possible the one or two frames of your animation were stuck waiting for a machine to become free since there are many other people rendering at the same time.