remote-restarting DR-render slaves

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when you are rendering with DR and cancel your rendering, the amount of ram used will continually increase due to a memory leak.
all you can do about it, is to restart the servers every now and then.

if you set up vray-spawner as a service, you may use the following script to do it for you:

http://www.files.01bild.de/vray\_restart%20all%20slaves\_eng.rar

use a text editor to edit the script to your needs.

if you start your renderslaves manually, or put the vrayspawner in the autostart-directory you can use this nifty tool to do it for you:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml

:slight_smile: andre

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Thanks Andre!

Question- does your machines have logins assigned to them? I can’t seem to connect to my other computers via service permissions…

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yes they do.

if you use pskill, you can specify a login-name and password.

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there’s something about autologins… beginning to wonder if I have to assign the windows login screen to each comp or create a separate non-default admin account.