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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:30:54 +0300
From: Evan Fotis <evan.fotis@gmail.com>
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I truly appreciate all of your kind suggestions.
Will have a look at them when this render is over, and make low rez 
tests to find out what seems best.

-From what i remember MP is on and 3cpu is set w/ 8GB of 24 reserved for 
apps/system.
  Haven't tried command line instances.

What I do not understand is that the system is "usable", while 
rendering, ram use is about 18GB (20 with some multitabbed browsers on 
:-) but the cpu usage is relatively low..

On 16-Aug-13 23:56, Nathan Shipley wrote:
> I don't think you've said if you're using multiprocessing or not. �If 
> you've got the RAM, try setting it to 3 GB per CPU and increasing the 
> CPUs reserved for other applications so it shows "Actual CPUs to be 
> used" to 2 or 3. �You also want to reserve enough RAM for other 
> applications so you don't run out of physical RAM space. �If you're 
> not doing this already, it throws another CPU at your render which can 
> significantly increase speed, provided you've got the RAM to cover it.
>
> A lot of our artists here seem to be very anti-multiprocessing, but 
> that seems to be due to bad experiences with it in the past or it 
> being mis-configured. �They'll claim it makes renders slower. �I'm a 
> big proponent of it in most instances and have a whole thing I've 
> typed up about how I like to configure it and why.
>
> Alternately, if you've already tried multi-processing and you've got 
> extra machines sitting around with all the plugins, fonts, etc., and 
> your project is network-accessible by all machines, you could do a 
> multi-machine render to an image sequence by checking "Skip Existing 
> Files" in the render settings. �Multi-machine seems to work better 
> with multi-processing turned OFF for some reason, so you're in the 
> realm of launching multiple command line renders on each machine to 
> use more than one thread to render with.
>
> If you haven't tried multiprocessing -- really, try it. :)
> �- Nathan