DR rendering on older Intel Mac computers

[caligra]

Hi,

I am trying to setup some DR rendering utilizing all the CPUs I can get running for DR rendering ..

One of these computers is the first generation Intel Mac, a Core Duo mac - that when in slave mode, show up in the DR list fine, it runs the slave fine, but when it receive the render it says:

Last login: Wed Apr 14 08:39:40 on console
/Volumes/Home\ Directory/Documents/NetRendering/Applications/vrayslave ; exit;
Rebecca:~ Admin$ /Volumes/Home\ Directory/Documents/NetRendering/Applications/vrayslave ; exit;
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Reading configuration from "/Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/vray/bin//vrayconfig.xml"
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] ===============================================
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] V-Ray Standalone, version 1.5.01 for x86
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Chaos Group Ltd. All rights reserved.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Use -credits option for additional third-party copyright notices.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07]
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Build from Apr 14 2010, 07:19:47
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Compiled with GCC-compatible compiler, version 4
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Operating system is Mac OS X
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07]
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] V-Ray core version is 1.90.03
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] ===============================================
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07]
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:07] Loading plugins from "/Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/vray/vrayplugins/libvray_*.so"
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:10] 92 plugin(s) loaded successfully
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:10] Finished loading plugins.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:10] Entering server mode - waiting for render requests on port 20207. Press Ctrl+C to exit.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:42] Starting DR session from 10.0.1.5
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:42] Receiving DR scene from 10.0.1.5
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Reading scene file "/tmp/vrscene.txt"
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] /tmp/vrscene.txt: done [ 0h 0m 0.1s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Scene file parsed successfully in 0.1 s.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Scene created successfully.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Objects in scene: 233
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Starting render sequence.
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Preparing renderer...
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Preparing scene for rendering...: done [ 0h 0m 0.1s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] ========================
[2010/Apr/14|08:40:57] Starting frame 1.
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:02] Bitmap file "/Volumes/Home Directory/Documents/NetRendering/source/DH216SN.hdr" loaded.
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:02] Preparing scene for frame...: done [ 0h 0m 5.4s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] Compiling geometry...: done [ 0h 0m 0.4s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] warning: Scene is empty.
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] Tracing 250000 image samples for light cache in 8 passes.
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] Building light cache...: done [ 0h 0m 0.7s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] Merging light cache passes...: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] Light cache contains 0 samples.
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:03] Prefiltering light cache...: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:09] Prepass 1 of 1...: done [ 0h 0m 5.8s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Rendering image...: done [ 0h 0m 46.4s]
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Number of raycasts: 2775189
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Camera rays: 2775189
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Shadow rays: 0
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] GI rays: 0
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Reflection rays: 0
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Refraction rays: 0
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Unshaded rays: 0
[2010/Apr/14|08:41:58] Closing DR session from 10.0.1.5.
Clearing command queue.

It simply finishes quite fast and the master machine just receives black DR squares from the slave..

Is this machine simply too old - or any other ideas?

[vlado]

Hm, it should be working. We'll have to try and reproduce this here.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

BTW does this happen for any scene?

Best regards,
Vlado

[caligra]

Hi Vlado,
yes its any scene.. All the core2duo's are rendering, but the Core Duo is not.. They are all running OS X 10.6.3