BB server specs

[gfa2]

I'd like to hear what others are using for the server that dishes out the backburner jobs. If you have a dedicated machine for this let me know. I keep all my models and materials on my server too, but if others are doing differently I'd like to hear about that too.

I have a dedicated dual 2.8 Ghz Xeon ...with 1G of RAM

I'm pretty sure the 1GB of RAM is what is causing my recent BB problems.

[tricky]

What version of BB are you running? We had quite a few errors using V2007 (or whatever it was called) that is installed with Max9. I just downgraded everything to 3.02 (we only use Max8 anyway) and everything is running flawlessly.

[gfa2]

I've been running that version 3 that came with max 8 for a long time and I get the "enexpected error and shutting down" error a lot. How much ram do you have on your BB manager machine?

[Dynedain]

You don't need much for the backburner manager.

Our manager is running on a Win2k Server that is also doing quite a few other tasks like being the Primary Domain Controller, Nightly Backup Server, key/dongle server and more.

It is only a P3 350Mhz with 512MB of ram, a 17GB hard drive, and a 100Mbit network card. Network rendering barely makes a blip in CPU, Memory, and Network useage.

All our scenefiles, textures, and render output paths are on a network fileserver appliance that as far as I can tell is just a 486 with a specialized operating system.

We're running 17 slaves on our render farm and a few workstations.