vrayslave and "kernel_task" consuming all available RAM

[jgriffin]

v-ray 2.40.02, Maya 2015 SP2, Mac OSX 10.9.2

I've had a new problem pop up yesterday and it seems to be persistent through reboots.

When a vrayslave and a vray standalone process are rendering at the same time on one of my render nodes, the vrayslave either spawns or contributes to a process called "kernel_task" which consumes all available memory over a period of several minutes. Stopping the vrayslave process releases most of the RAM and the kernel_task process typically shrinks back to less than 2GB.

This just started yesterday and I've seen it on four machines so far. I suspect it's something in the scene files for our current project but I'm not sure where to start looking to debug this one. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

- J

[vlado]

If you suspect that it's something in the scene, it would be best if you can send it to support@chaosgroup.com so that we debug it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jgriffin]

Thanks Vlado but we've signed a small mountain of NDA's and none of these assets are supposed to leave the studio. I'll see if I can recreate the problem with a different scene.

[tashko.zashev]

Hi,

If you manage to prepare a simple scene for this issue, please send it to us > support@chaosgroup.com.
Otherwise we will wait for the current one at the end of the project.