DR : Missing buckets

[KruL]

Hi everyone,

I just switched to Max9 and Vray RC3, all is going fine except for the following problem I have encountered :
when I launch vrayspawner on my network with : 1 bixeon (4 buckets) and 1 athlon X2 (2 buckets) from my main workstation, an ahtlon X2 (2 buckets) I should, and used to get 8 buckets running with vray rC2 on max8.
now, the spawner works fine, but I only get 4 buckets!!
(2 from my main workstation, and 1 from each render slave).

Sorry if this has already been mentioned and/or resolved, I searched the forum before asking but to no avail... So I'm wondering if it's the usual problem... due to the user!

I miss my 4 extra buckets any help would be welcome
Thanks

julien

[Candelero]

Re: DR : Missing buckets

For whatever reason, 3dsmax 9 seems to assume always 1 rendering thread
when started in slave mode; we will work around this issue, but for now,
you can force V-Ray to use a specified number of threads across all
render slaves by opening the maxscript listener (f11) and typing:

renderers.current.system_numThreads=4
where the number is the number of your cores

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[KruL]

thanks nikki, it works perfectly !! my eight buckets are back !

julien

[Candelero]

Welcome !

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[fabriceb]

ok, here's another one... I have a 8 cores workstation + 6 rendernodes on dual cores. on RC3 I get 8 buckets for my workstation and 1 bucket per render node.
If I type NumThreads=2, the workstation has only 2 threads and render nodes 2
If I type NumThreads=8 they all have 8 buckets each! it actually works so I might just leave it like this but not sure it's best for performance. I guess it's some kind of hyperthreading so should be goog in theory ?