Renders hanging but only on renderfarm

[stezza]

We have had a few scenes which render the first frame fine then on the second just after the buckets appear it stalls until you cancel the job.
Now the weird thing is is that it only happens on the render farm, I can render locally with no issues. The render farm usese the same mapped drives as my local PC, the fact that the first frame render ok tells me that all works fine, just until the next frame.
There is no crashing you just have to cancel the job.
It's a small scene with 2 referenced charcters and dynamic memory is det to 4gig but farm only uses 2gig during the rendering.

Any one got any ideas as to what or where I need to look to fix this.

The render farm is connected to the network the same way my local machine is.
We use RenderPal manager

THanks for any help guys.
S

[Morbid Angel]

what happens if you reque the frame on the farm does it hang the second time? We used to have this during vray 1.5 beta where on any given job at least 2-3 frames would hang. But after requeing them they run fine. Vlado did do some fixes for us, in particular we had to disable simbiont plugin and that has since fixed the hanging issue but again this was on 1.5 vray.

[snivlem]

I'm getting the same problem as well Stezza. It's been a nightmare for us to use DR this project.

[2011/Jul/30|01:25:46] V-Ray: (Estimated time remaining: 0h 0m 16.5s): 90 % completed

^ And that was 10 hours ago! Have to go into work and reset it.

In particular we had to disable simbiont plugin and that has since fixed the hanging issue but again this was on 1.5 vray

Thanks for the tip, this might be the issue for us.

[stezza]

Well thanks for the tip, we are still using 1.5 here so will try the disabling of simbiont plugin..Will let you know if this fixed the problem.
Thanks