DRs Spawner Timeouts

[derben]

I have a setup of two dedicated rendering slaves on my network and a work laptop that is connected to them wirelessly. I am working on fairly complex model - I believe its 60mb that is being sent to the other computers (over a wifi). This used to work fine until my model reached a certain size and I believe the render slaves time out before they receive the complete scene. Is there anyway I can change the time the slaves have to send their ok back to the master before they cancel?

Also - The slaves sometimes take up to half of the rendering time to join the render - So my main computer will have done most of the rendering before the slaves even join in.. is there anything i can do to make them start sooner?

[schultzeworks]

A possibility with cabling

I've only seen problems when I am using my wireless connection on the host computer. I learned to just run a cable between the host and router for the duration of renders... and that always clears up the timeout / crash. Give it a try.

[LeoBonilla]

Re: DRs Spawner Timeouts

So Cable is faster than Wi-Fi right?

[schultzeworks]

Speed question

Its not a matter of speed, although a wired connection is usually MUCH faster. Wifi can experience intermittent drops of data due to distance and interference. These drops are rarely noticed if its a webpage but, if its critical data for the DRSpawner, then it will crash.

As I stated earlier, my wifi will crash with the DRSapwner. When I connect the cable, its faster and no crashes.

FYI : WIFI SPEEDS
802.11b -- up to 11 Mbps
802.11g -- up to 54 Mbps
802.11n -- up to 100 Mbps

CAT 5 CABLE SPEEDS
10/100 -- 100 Mbps minimum
1000 -- 1,000 new standard on most new workstations

[derben]

Re: DRs Spawner Timeouts

I tested it and it does actually work with the cable plugged in (or using only one slave so that the amount of data to be sent is halved). Thanks for the help though!