Distributed Rendering & Network Limitations ?

[bernhard]

Problem:
3dsmax file size is reaching 1 GB. Distributed Rendering is failing.

Error I am receiving from the Log:
Host is busy

Vray doesn't initiate the render anymore / game over.
I delete geometry and bring down the 3dsmax file size to 500MB - it works again.

Question:
Is this a Vray Limitation ?
Or is it a network problem ?

We upgraded to a 15GB strong network which should actually handle this.

Number of total Renderblades in the network: 21

What you think ?
How to fix that issue ?

[Morbid Angel]

I don't think I ever heard of a 15 gb network. The best network is 10gb, but when you upgrade you need to have a special network card in your box/render server that can read that fast and a network switch that's capable of reading 10gb speed. Is that what you have?

regardless, what's probably happening is that it takes a while to open your 1gb file. By that time you cancel the render and network machines stall trying to load/unload that file. I remember dealing with large files over DR and it works fine but they kick in late during render.

[vlado]

We had an issue when transferring very large files, I think the limit was 2GB though. Maybe it's possible to use X-Refs for some of that, to avoid large transfers?

Best regards,
Vlado

[philosofix]

Have you tried enabling "Compress on Save" in the File Handling option in 3ds Max. I used to deal with 1GB files with 3d4Medical files I was working on. These had all the working Systems of the body.
Enabling this easily brings that down to roughly 1 quarter the size if I remember correctly. I think this also makes the normal save faster. I have a similar problem with industrial CAD files I get to convert to poly. Same applies.
Not sure if it will help you or not.

[3LP]

Yes always use compress on save, the project I'm woking on currently goes from 500Mb to 53Mb with compress on save, really worth it

Stan