Hi Mark,
I'm pleased to inform you that you can keep at least some of your money
in your pocket ;)
32 and 64 bit can be mixed without problems.
The slaves don't need to be as heavily equipped as the main work station.
Only my workstation is running on 64bit, all the slaves are still on 32bit.
When I render an image of my rather complex city it takes 3.2 G RAM on
my workstation.
But for the slaves 1 Gig of RAM is enough.
I used to have slaves with 512 K, but that has become too little, so I
updated them to 1 or 2 Gig.
Arjo.
Mark Heuymans wrote:
Hi Arjo,
Oops, right... that also means all render slaves have to be 64bit and
have plenty of RAM when working with large plants.
Wow, these V6 plants are nice but incredibly resource-hungry... thank
god for the new instance rendering and File instance.
BTW, the memory options in render settings Automatic, Do not care,
Medium and Use sparingly don't seem to have much effect...
thanks for the tips,
Mark
Going up to 4 Gig on 32bit won't help
32bit applications can address only 2 Gig per task.
So you really need 64bit if you want to handle large trees.
