Re: Maya the server destroyer
Thanks for everyone's advice! Certainly a lot to play with to get things cooking. We're using Arnold BTW. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > That would be really helpful Holger, and much appreciated :-) > > //Morten > > > > > Den 23. maj 2016 klokken 15:39 skrev Schoenberger : > > > > > > > > PS: > > I am currently creating a small tool to test the network transfer speed > from a fileserver to multiple machines at the same time for > > our own investigation. I think I can release that to the public once it > is finished (in a week?). > > > > > > > > Holger Schönberger > > technical director > > The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night > > > > > > > > |> -Original Message- > > |> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > > |> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf > > |> Of Morten Bartholdy > > |> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 10:43 AM > > |> To: Steve Parish; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > > |> Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer > > |> > > |> Hmm - we don't really have any problems with Maya and RR > > |> even on large scenes. As Ed said, when simulating, cache > > |> locally and distribute the cache to render clients in a > > |> local temp folder - this lightens the network load quite a > > |> lot, and definately use tiled, mipmapped textures if your > > |> renderer supports it. With Arnold this makes a huge difference. > > |> > > |> We actually only have problems which are more related to > > |> Vray being a memoryhog. Perhaps you have other bottleneck > > |> in your network? > > |> > > |> //Morten > > |> > > |> > > |> > > |> > Den 20. maj 2016 klokken 19:16 skrev Steve Parish > > |> : > > |> > > > |> > > > |> > My Maya misery continues.. > > |> > > > |> > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing > > |> the server to > > |> > its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams > > |> > everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. > > |> > > > |> > We're using Royal Render.. > > |> > > > |> > Any suggestions? > > |> > > > |> > Thanks > > |> > Steve P > > |> > -- > > |> > Softimage Mailing List. > > |> > To unsubscribe, send a mail to > > |> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" > > |> in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > |> -- > > |> Softimage Mailing List. > > |> To unsubscribe, send a mail to > > |> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" > > |> in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > > > -- > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
RE: Maya the server destroyer
That would be really helpful Holger, and much appreciated :-) //Morten > Den 23. maj 2016 klokken 15:39 skrev Schoenberger : > > > > PS: > I am currently creating a small tool to test the network transfer speed from > a fileserver to multiple machines at the same time for > our own investigation. I think I can release that to the public once it is > finished (in a week?). > > > > Holger Schönberger > technical director > The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night > > > > |> -Original Message- > |> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > |> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf > |> Of Morten Bartholdy > |> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 10:43 AM > |> To: Steve Parish; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > |> Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer > |> > |> Hmm - we don't really have any problems with Maya and RR > |> even on large scenes. As Ed said, when simulating, cache > |> locally and distribute the cache to render clients in a > |> local temp folder - this lightens the network load quite a > |> lot, and definately use tiled, mipmapped textures if your > |> renderer supports it. With Arnold this makes a huge difference. > |> > |> We actually only have problems which are more related to > |> Vray being a memoryhog. Perhaps you have other bottleneck > |> in your network? > |> > |> //Morten > |> > |> > |> > |> > Den 20. maj 2016 klokken 19:16 skrev Steve Parish > |> : > |> > > |> > > |> > My Maya misery continues.. > |> > > |> > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing > |> the server to > |> > its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams > |> > everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. > |> > > |> > We're using Royal Render.. > |> > > |> > Any suggestions? > |> > > |> > Thanks > |> > Steve P > |> > -- > |> > Softimage Mailing List. > |> > To unsubscribe, send a mail to > |> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" > |> in the subject, and reply to confirm. > |> -- > |> Softimage Mailing List. > |> To unsubscribe, send a mail to > |> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" > |> in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
RE: Maya the server destroyer
PS: I am currently creating a small tool to test the network transfer speed from a fileserver to multiple machines at the same time for our own investigation. I think I can release that to the public once it is finished (in a week?). Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night |> -Original Message- |> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com |> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf |> Of Morten Bartholdy |> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 10:43 AM |> To: Steve Parish; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com |> Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer |> |> Hmm - we don't really have any problems with Maya and RR |> even on large scenes. As Ed said, when simulating, cache |> locally and distribute the cache to render clients in a |> local temp folder - this lightens the network load quite a |> lot, and definately use tiled, mipmapped textures if your |> renderer supports it. With Arnold this makes a huge difference. |> |> We actually only have problems which are more related to |> Vray being a memoryhog. Perhaps you have other bottleneck |> in your network? |> |> //Morten |> |> |> |> > Den 20. maj 2016 klokken 19:16 skrev Steve Parish |> : |> > |> > |> > My Maya misery continues.. |> > |> > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing |> the server to |> > its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams |> > everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. |> > |> > We're using Royal Render.. |> > |> > Any suggestions? |> > |> > Thanks |> > Steve P |> > -- |> > Softimage Mailing List. |> > To unsubscribe, send a mail to |> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" |> in the subject, and reply to confirm. |> -- |> Softimage Mailing List. |> To unsubscribe, send a mail to |> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" |> in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
Hmm - we don't really have any problems with Maya and RR even on large scenes. As Ed said, when simulating, cache locally and distribute the cache to render clients in a local temp folder - this lightens the network load quite a lot, and definately use tiled, mipmapped textures if your renderer supports it. With Arnold this makes a huge difference. We actually only have problems which are more related to Vray being a memoryhog. Perhaps you have other bottleneck in your network? //Morten > Den 20. maj 2016 klokken 19:16 skrev Steve Parish : > > > My Maya misery continues.. > > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its > knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I > can only really submit to 3 machines. > > We're using Royal Render.. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > Steve P > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
RE: Maya the server destroyer
Hi Scenes: - Yes, Softimage is the only application that supports multi-machine skip frames. RR has a workaround for some render apps, you have to enable "Keep scene open". - Enable "local scene copy". This copies the scene file once to the client. You might get issues if xgen files, textures or cache files are set with an relative path to the scene file. RR has a copy delay for scene files, you can change this is in the config of each client. It simply slows down the copy process. Textures: - Local Textures: Save .ma files. They are larger, but only copied once as you need to enable "local scene copy". Use the Local Texture submit in Maya. The texture files are copied once (with the same delay as the scene copy) to the client, the scene file is copied and the texture paths in the scene file are changed to the local paths. As one texture is used for many layers, many scenes and many scene versions during a project, you save a lot of traffic. - If you have used Softimage with MRay, then Softimage was able to keep the texture files in memory. With Maya, the renderer has to load the texture files when the frame render starts. - Texture format: Which format do you use for your texture? If you do not need alpha or 16bit, then save jpegs with 90% quality, in almost all cases you can not even get artifacts on the final image with "I want to have jpeg artifacts" contrast filters. - Reduce the texture size: If the textures are painted, then you can reduce the size to 50-75% without any differrence in the final image. Just test it, render one frame, use a photoshop script to create 50% resultion textures, render the same frame. Compare the frames. If you see differences, change these textures (not all) with a 75% resolution texture and render again. Output: - Local render out saves constant traffic as well. RR copies the whole frame at once instead of saving it constantly (depends on the renderer as well) - If you render .exr files, then enable "Crop EXR". The files will be smaller, therefore less traffic. You have to use Adobe CC 2014+ or Nuke. A hint for comp: If you use Nuke 8+ and you render one file with many AOV, then enable EXR 2.0 in rrConfig, tab misc. Saves you traffic during comp. Which renderer do you use? Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steve Parish Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 7:17 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Maya the server destroyer My Maya misery continues.. We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. We're using Royal Render.. Any suggestions? Thanks Steve P -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
Hi, RoyalRender now has a "keep open" option for the scene you send it, so even if you are sending it one frame at a time rather than a bunch it should wait until you explicitly send it another scene before flushing the current one! Cheers Lawrence > On 20 May 2016, at 21:13, Ed Manning wrote: > > It's not Maya's fault. It's how the render manager, in this case Royal, has > its options set. > > There is something bad about Maya and certain read/write operations over > network, but I don't think this is that. > > Unless you're trying to render on Windows render nodes to a Linux or OS X > server running a bad SMB stack. > > In which case you might as well be in the Sarlacc Pit. > > > >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Sven Constable >> wrote: >> Maya also loads the scene at every frame? I was thinking only 3dsmax had >> this awful behavior. If they would know how elegant softimage batch >> rendering actually is… >> >> >> >> >> >> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ed Manning >> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:15 PM >> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer >> >> >> >> use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp directory >> on the render machines, then copies to the server. >> set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the scene >> has to be loaded by the network machines >> turn off any unnecessary aovs >> try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >> don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot of disk >> read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >> for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish wrote: >> >> My Maya misery continues.. >> >> >> >> We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its >> knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I >> can only really submit to 3 machines. >> >> >> >> We're using Royal Render.. >> >> >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Steve P >> >> >> -- >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
Thanks for the help guys, I'll take a close look at everything! Enjoy your weekend :) On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Sven Constable wrote: > Yeah, I know. But the feature itself, to use chunks of frames was > originally developed by Holger to circumvent the issue by the > renderer/batch executable loading the scene at every frame, wasn't it? Like > the KSO (keep scene open) feature in RR, also adressing this problem. > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Ed Manning > *Sent:* Friday, May 20, 2016 10:13 PM > > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Maya the server destroyer > > > > It's not Maya's fault. It's how the render manager, in this case Royal, > has its options set. > > > > There is something bad about Maya and certain read/write operations over > network, but I don't think this is that. > > > > Unless you're trying to render on Windows render nodes to a Linux or OS X > server running a bad SMB stack. > > > > In which case you might as well be in the Sarlacc Pit. > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Sven Constable > wrote: > > Maya also loads the scene at every frame? I was thinking only 3dsmax had > this awful behavior. If they would know how elegant softimage batch > rendering actually is… > > > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Ed Manning > *Sent:* Friday, May 20, 2016 9:15 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Maya the server destroyer > > > >- use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp >directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. >- set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the >scene has to be loaded by the network machines >- turn off any unnecessary aovs >- try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >- don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot >of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >- for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish > wrote: > > My Maya misery continues.. > > > > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its > knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I > can only really submit to 3 machines. > > > > We're using Royal Render.. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks > > Steve P > > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
RE: Maya the server destroyer
Yeah, I know. But the feature itself, to use chunks of frames was originally developed by Holger to circumvent the issue by the renderer/batch executable loading the scene at every frame, wasn't it? Like the KSO (keep scene open) feature in RR, also adressing this problem. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ed Manning Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:13 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer It's not Maya's fault. It's how the render manager, in this case Royal, has its options set. There is something bad about Maya and certain read/write operations over network, but I don't think this is that. Unless you're trying to render on Windows render nodes to a Linux or OS X server running a bad SMB stack. In which case you might as well be in the Sarlacc Pit. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Sven Constable wrote: Maya also loads the scene at every frame? I was thinking only 3dsmax had this awful behavior. If they would know how elegant softimage batch rendering actually is… From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ed Manning Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:15 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer * use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. * set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the scene has to be loaded by the network machines * turn off any unnecessary aovs * try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines * don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions * for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish wrote: My Maya misery continues.. We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. We're using Royal Render.. Any suggestions? Thanks Steve P -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
It's not Maya's fault. It's how the render manager, in this case Royal, has its options set. There is something bad about Maya and certain read/write operations over network, but I don't think this is that. Unless you're trying to render on Windows render nodes to a Linux or OS X server running a bad SMB stack. In which case you might as well be in the Sarlacc Pit. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Sven Constable wrote: > Maya also loads the scene at every frame? I was thinking only 3dsmax had > this awful behavior. If they would know how elegant softimage batch > rendering actually is… > > > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Ed Manning > *Sent:* Friday, May 20, 2016 9:15 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Maya the server destroyer > > > >- use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp >directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. >- set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the >scene has to be loaded by the network machines >- turn off any unnecessary aovs >- try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >- don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot >of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >- for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish > wrote: > > My Maya misery continues.. > > > > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its > knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I > can only really submit to 3 machines. > > > > We're using Royal Render.. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks > > Steve P > > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
RE: Maya the server destroyer
Maya also loads the scene at every frame? I was thinking only 3dsmax had this awful behavior. If they would know how elegant softimage batch rendering actually is… From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ed Manning Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:15 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer * use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. * set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the scene has to be loaded by the network machines * turn off any unnecessary aovs * try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines * don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions * for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish wrote: My Maya misery continues.. We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. We're using Royal Render.. Any suggestions? Thanks Steve P -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
check your logfiles to see where the biggest latencies are. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Ed Manning wrote: > and stagger the start times -- Royal might have a built-in delay option > for this. that way the machines don't all hit the server at once for the > same files. > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Ed Manning wrote: > >> and if your renderer supports proxies (I think most of them do), use them! >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Ed Manning wrote: >> >>> >>>- use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp >>>directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. >>>- set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times >>>the scene has to be loaded by the network machines >>>- turn off any unnecessary aovs >>>- try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >>>- don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot >>>of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >>>- for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish >>> wrote: >>> My Maya misery continues.. We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. We're using Royal Render.. Any suggestions? Thanks Steve P -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >>> >> > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
and stagger the start times -- Royal might have a built-in delay option for this. that way the machines don't all hit the server at once for the same files. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Ed Manning wrote: > and if your renderer supports proxies (I think most of them do), use them! > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Ed Manning wrote: > >> >>- use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp >>directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. >>- set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times >>the scene has to be loaded by the network machines >>- turn off any unnecessary aovs >>- try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >>- don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot >>of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >>- for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish >> wrote: >> >>> My Maya misery continues.. >>> >>> We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to >>> its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything >>> up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. >>> >>> We're using Royal Render.. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Steve P >>> >>> -- >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >> >> > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
and if your renderer supports proxies (I think most of them do), use them! On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Ed Manning wrote: > >- use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp >directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. >- set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the >scene has to be loaded by the network machines >- turn off any unnecessary aovs >- try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >- don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot >of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >- for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish > wrote: > >> My Maya misery continues.. >> >> We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to >> its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything >> up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. >> >> We're using Royal Render.. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks >> Steve P >> >> -- >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Re: Maya the server destroyer
- use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp directory on the render machines, then copies to the server. - set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the scene has to be loaded by the network machines - turn off any unnecessary aovs - try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines - don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot of disk read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions - for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish wrote: > My Maya misery continues.. > > We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its > knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I > can only really submit to 3 machines. > > We're using Royal Render.. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > Steve P > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
Maya the server destroyer
My Maya misery continues.. We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I can only really submit to 3 machines. We're using Royal Render.. Any suggestions? Thanks Steve P -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
