Render Slave

[samsue]

Hallo

I'm having some trouble with my slave render, it's taking 30 minutes to start the render on the slave.


This has also been a big problem, when I have rendered through the backburner, on my workstation it works perfectly. But in the backburner it takes a long time to start rendering, that if it starts, I always have problems.-.

[paride4331]

Hi samsue,
uncheck "minimize net traffic" in Kernel panel.
Are you using Cat 6 cable?
Regards
Paride

[samsue]

Hi Paride

It's already unmarked

Yeah, I think it could be a problem in our network, too. But 30 minutes seemed like a long time even with internal net problem.

[paride4331]

Hi Paride

It's already unmarked

Yeah, I think it could be a problem in our network, too. But 30 minutes seemed like a long time even with internal net problem.

hi samsue,
it could depends on your network, in my experience a Network switch could solve network issues like this.
Try to set all movable proxy in your scene, it still helps.
Regards
Paride.

[samsue]

we tested the network, everything seems to be fine, I hadn't noticed that issue in previous Build

**its all setup to movable proxy

[samsue]

paride, Is it normal that if I change a material the "net updating" starts from 0?


I couldn't find any anomalies in the company's internal network. it's bothering me, every time I change a material it takes another 10 minutes to render server to start rendering

[paride4331]

Hi Samsue,
any displacement textures come with it?
Regards
Paride

[coilbook]

paride, Is it normal that if I change a material the "net updating" starts from 0?


I couldn't find any anomalies in the company's internal network. it's bothering me, every time I change a material it takes another 10 minutes to render server to start rendering

I would check cables and ethernet connections. Try to run a straight cat6 Ethernet line from the master to the slave. If it's still slow it's not cable related.

[samsue]

paride4331

I'm testing...


coilbook

I'll try, I don't know if anything's changed... but in the old builders I had the impression that start pretty fast.

How long does it take for you to start rendering too? In a large scene

[coilbook]

paride4331

I'm testing...


coilbook

I'll try, I don't know if anything's changed... but in the old builders I had the impression that start pretty fast.

How long does it take for you to start rendering too? In a large scene

Large scenes used to take 1-2 min to load. So by the time our slaves kicked in our master was almost done rendering. We render animation in 1080p not a single image so having slow slaves was a big problem.
So we solved it by getting 10 Gigabit switch and adding 10 gigabit network cards to all PC. All Ethernet cables were upgraded to CAT7. Also we don't run the master through the router first.
Our master and slaves are connected to the switch. The router is also connected to the switch supplying all PCs with the internet. Now slaves start rendering almost immediately.
I heard even one low quality cable or Ethernet jack can create a big bottle neck.