Slow to start on slaves

[glorybound]

I removed my oldest machine, which really never contributed much, and I think things are speeding up.

I have recently discovered that if you only have the specific servers you are doing DR on ticked in the DR 'settings...' box then it speeds up the start of the rendering process quite significantly. If there's a bunch of DR servers in there ticked that aren't on, or are otherwise busy, vray takes a while working through the list figuring out what servers are available and what aren't.

[svetlozar.draganov]

Thanks for the feedback.
What are the specs of the old machine and how much faster is the rendering without it?

[glorybound]

RAM Total:	12 GB
Processors:	CPU Chip Count: 8 CPU Core Count: 8 CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU2: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU3: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU4: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU5: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU6: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core) CPU7: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon processor (1 core)
Operating System Name:	Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional x64 Edition
Service Pack:	Service Pack 2

[glorybound]

I use LAN Speed Test (http://www.totusoft.com/)

what are you guys using to test network speed?

[kimgar]

thanks bobby, i've been using the same software but getting 90 Mbps only, damn, something is up....