Chenarch Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Hey all, I am experimenting with v9 now and Renderama. I work on a MacPro 2008 with 8 threads running Snow Leopard. I set up the Slave on a Mac Pro Nehalem 2009 with 16 threads also running Snow Leopard. Connected with ethernet. I only need one Slave, is that correct? When I try to make the Slave machine do 64 bit architecture, it errors. But the main (local) machine will do 64 bit. So far the single Slave on Mac pro Nehalem is faster than running eight Slaves using v8. Any words of wisdom on v9 Renderama or Slaves or 32 bit versus 64? Thanks! Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Ola Rich! Do you mean in EIAS 9.1 running on a Mac, its not seeing 64 bits architecture? Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwcc Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 You may have already tried this, I am using a Mac MIni as a slave and I had to install from the installer (not just copying the Slave folder from another computer) - it is running a newer OS - but I couldn't get the Salve to run at all just by copying. Also, remember... If you are using any 32 bit plug-ins it is usually faster to render in 32-bit. for some reason 64-bit Camera slows down with the old plugins. bw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chenarch Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 The EIAS 9.0 is running on a 2008 MacPro and does see 64 bit. The Slave Camera 9.0 running on 2009 MacPro (connected by Ethernet) does not see the 64 bit. Both machines running Snow Leopard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Ola Rich, OSX 10.6.8? When you open Camera settings, cant you see this pop-up? Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chenarch Posted November 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Hi Tom! I upgraded to 9.1 and created a new Renderama Slave on the Nehalem Machine (10.6.8). I do get that choice of 32 or 64. I try to run it at 64 and I get this error... Can it have something to do with the Ethernet connection between the two computers? The main machine (the local) will run 64 bit... http://www.princetondigitalarts.com/no64.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Ola Rich! Maybe its a OSX permission problem? Install 9.1 again in the slave, but drop the EIAS 9 folder in the desktop. Msg us. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chenarch Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Here are some tests I did, as scientifically as I could... (( I had to add the "Camera_64 exe" to each Slave folder. )) All renders are being sent to a Mac Pro Nehalem (2009) with 24GB RAM. File only uses one Uber Shape plus Mr. Nitro and no textures. Threw away the cache file and render folder between each test. #1: v9 / 32 bit / 16 thread / 8 slaves / 361 frames / 1950 MB @ camera (optimized) / 00:09:32 #2: v9 / 64 bit / 16 thread / 8 slaves / 361 frames / 24376 MB all 16 threads (optimized) / 02:02:00 #3: v8 / ......... / 8 slaves / 361 frames / 1950 MB @ camera (this was set) / 01:41:09 When I ran it on 32 bit 16 thread w 8 cameras it was only 9 minutes. I don't understand what's going on technically between 32 and 64, but I suspect the 64 is supposed to be faster. I can post the file if anyone is curious to try. Thanks! Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Ola Rich! Camera 64 is used only when you have huge texture files and models which 32 can't render, Camera 64 is not faster than 32 in all most comparisons, but can be if you have huge files only. Did you understand? Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwcc Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Could the Plug-in, if it is a 32-bit plug-in if might really slow down. I noticed this with Placer Deposit and Mrs Bebel bw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Ola Rich, Use the new option in the contextual menu "reveal in Finder", when you select the Ubershape in the project window, if it's from EIAS 8, close the project, rename EIAS 8 folder. It will force the second time you open the project in EIAS 9 to use all EIAS 9 64 bits tools. Then save the project ;) Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chenarch Posted November 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Thanks, guys, will check it out! Richard Getting Less Ignorant for over 56 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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