Hi, we had wondered why our CORE i7 renders a scene faster then the dual-xeon. So we reboot the dual-xeon which had been rendering continuously for over a week and it renders the same scene 4 times faster. Al machines running Win7 64bit with plenty of RAM. So no swapping involved. Didn’t think that this is needed nowadays. Lars

isn’t there a check box, under your distribution render, that asks if you would like to restart slaves after completion? Maybe that would help.

I have also noticed the same issue… The longer the dual Xeon stays on and renders it will tend to slow down and eventually totaly freeze… I just beat on it until it gives up and then restart.. no mercy for the machines!!!

Yep - have similar stuff happening over in max land - the windows system process starts to clog up memory wise and eventually makes the machine start to use virtual memory which drops your cpu % used. I’m not sure where it’s coming from whether it’s nuke, render pal, backburner, max or vraybut definitely getting something similar. Gonna run some tests when I get a few days free.

vrayslave.exe doesn’t dump memory after each use and eat your ram until you close the shell.

[image]Beach House vrayslave.exe doesn’t dump memory after each use and eat your ram until you close the shell. Do you have a scene that makes vrayslave.exe leak memory in reproducible way? Keep in mind that vrayslave.exe frees memory when a new scene starts to render, not at the end of the previous render. So if you do consecutive renders there should be no memory problems. /Teodor

Restart you renderslaves once in a while

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Sequenz August 16, 2011, 9:47am 6

Thanks guys for the info.

SharkDay

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Restart you renderslaves once in a while

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