OctaneRender® beta 2.43 (lin/mac/win) [OBSOLETE]

[grimm]

Sure, here you go,

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top - 01:26:50 up 3 days,  4:15,  3 users,  load average: 1.51, 1.43, 0.94
Tasks: 234 total,   4 running, 230 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 26.9%us, 10.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 62.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8196524k total,  8099156k used,    97368k free,   223308k buffers
Swap: 10305532k total,        8k used, 10305524k free,  6286836k cached

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32578 jason     20   0  508m 100m  33m R 179.5  1.3  26:15.08 octane            
 1760 root      20   0  191m  99m  24m R 13.9  1.2  76:40.13 Xorg               
 2397 jason     20   0 2138m 140m  23m S 13.3  1.8 394:59.59 plugin-containe    
 2320 jason     20   0  356m  24m  18m R 12.3  0.3  11:56.24 gnome-system-mo    
25669 jason     20   0 1491m  61m  23m S  4.0  0.8  34:14.25 rhythmbox          
 2344 jason     20   0 1065m 245m  35m S  2.0  3.1 159:06.05 firefox            
 2966 jason     20   0  953m 106m  33m S  1.3  1.3   6:25.73 thunderbird-bin    
25532 jason      9 -11  568m 6936 5308 S  1.3  0.1  13:30.00 pulseaudio         
  418 root      20   0 15132 1268  880 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.07 top                
 1291 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   2:32.39 kondemand/0        
    1 root      20   0 19272 1460 1156 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.85 init               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.15 migration/0        
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.77 ksoftirqd/0        
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    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.17 migration/1        
    7 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.01 ksoftirqd/1   

[dave62]

thank you marcus, thank you terrence, thank you all!!
yes, -running fast:)
so happy about 2.43! such a lot improvements, reload image button:) ..much more vram available:)) ..also the messed up material problem after blendefr export dissappeared! -awesome!!!!!!
jippppppyyeahh

you guys made my day! lets playyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.



thx dave

[dave62]

I've tested the 2.4 CUDA 3.2 on Ubuntu 10.10, nvidia drivers 260.19.26, and it works ok.

I've noticed that the GUI responsiveness is somewhat worse than with pre2.3 (I have only one GPU, I guess that for normal work having a dedicated GPU for the display is a must).
OTOH, when paused, the responsiveness is normal again (under pre2.3 it wasn't) and I can do tonemaping without lag = one more small thing that makes life easier

I'll do more extensive testing later, but it looks very nice. Good job!

PS,
the CPU usage is still maxed out (both cores at 100%) when rendering heavier scenes. Could some Ubuntu user please confirm (or deny) this behaviour on his machine?

usage.jpg

hey matej -today the mysterious linux user happy day;)

same on my machine two cores of my Q6600 quad are running at 100%. got ot check how far it differs to 2.3, but later. first i want to have fun:)

dave

[matej]

Mysterious Linux User™

mib, grimm, dave - thank you for your inputs. It seems Octane is taxing the CPU on all our systems, just that my relatively weak machine (2 core CPU, 1 GPU) is overwhelmed.

[carbon]

ehm, alpha material crash in big resolution after about 1 minute of rendering, see attached scene, just select material. it is reproducible. on ubuntu 10.04, GTX 460, cuda 3.2, driver 260.19.26.

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carbon@c14:~/Desktop/OctaneRender_COM_intermediate_pre243_linux_x64_cuda32$ ./octane 
Releasing cuda context on thread 238475008
Activating cuda context on thread 219567872
Releasing cuda context on thread 219567872
Activating cuda context on thread 238475008
Releasing cuda context on thread 238475008
Activating cuda context on thread 219567872
Cuda error in file '/home/abstrax/dev/cuda32/Octane_Project/src/renderer/cuda/octane_cuda_kernel.cu' in line 551 : the launch timed out and was terminated.
ERROR: Program executed illegal instruction.. terminating

[rotorgames]

Bugs

http://youtu.be/YkBYXcAoBRk?hd=1

[bepeg4d]

this time i'm not so lucky with the installation of mac cuda 3.2
octane correctly start and load every scene but if i pick the mash node, nothing happen. on exit it crash and gives the error message attached
ciao beppe

[abstrax]

this time i'm not so lucky with the installation of mac cuda 3.2
octane correctly start and load every scene but if i pick the mash node, nothing happen. on exit it crash and gives the error message attached
ciao beppe

Hmm, maybe it helps to completely delete the directory /ust/local/cuda and then reinstall (in that order)
- the latest NVIDIA driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-mac ... river.html)
- the CUDA 3.2 toolkit (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda ... html#MacOS)
- the CUDA 3.2 driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cud ... river.html)
?

Or just wait for the CUDA 3.0 releases, which I'm currently preparing and which will be available in 2-3 hours.

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

ehm, alpha material crash in big resolution after about 1 minute of rendering, see attached scene, just select material. it is reproducible. on ubuntu 10.04, GTX 460, cuda 3.2, driver 260.19.26.

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carbon@c14:~/Desktop/OctaneRender_COM_intermediate_pre243_linux_x64_cuda32$ ./octane 
Releasing cuda context on thread 238475008
Activating cuda context on thread 219567872
Releasing cuda context on thread 219567872
Activating cuda context on thread 238475008
Releasing cuda context on thread 238475008
Activating cuda context on thread 219567872
Cuda error in file '/home/abstrax/dev/cuda32/Octane_Project/src/renderer/cuda/octane_cuda_kernel.cu' in line 551 : the launch timed out and was terminated.
ERROR: Program executed illegal instruction.. terminating

Ok, the problem is each render pass at 4Kx4K resolution takes too long: On my GTX 470 each pass takes 5-6 seconds and according to the NVIDIA CUDA forum there seems to be a 5 second timeout in the Xserver. I don't know how to change that.

Is the GTX 460 used by your X server? Maybe you can run the X server only on your GTX 260. This might help.

If nothing helps, try it with 2Kx2K resolution, which should take less than 5 seconds on your GTX 460.

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

Just to let you know. I have posted the CUDA 3.0 builds.

Happy rendering,
Marcus