Octane Network Crashes

Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:47 am

I updated WIndows on Slave. Still the same issue.
I de - and installed the drivers already several times..

Any other guesses?

Thank you so much already for your time.

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:19 am

Sorry, forgot to ask, at which resolution are you rendering?
Have you tried to render at half resolution?
Frame buffer is handled in system RAM.

ciao Beppe

Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:34 pm

rendering in 1080p.
Will try with half resolution.

Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:34 pm

RAM usage was only at 8 GB.
Still crashed the Slave on half resolution.

It might be the PSU. It´s a 1000 but maybe getting a bit old.
Trying to render with only 2 GPUs on Slave. so far so good.

This might be the issue.

But sometimes it crashed after 50 frames, so I have to observe and post if this is not the issue.

Thanks again for your time.

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:33 am

Hi,
in general, if you are having issues with PSU, the Render-Node machine should reboot after crash.
What about the motherboard model?
If it is a X99 or X299 motherboard, it could give issues in Multi GPU mode with more than 2x GPUs.

ciao Beppe

Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:20 am

Hi,
with 2 GPU´s it also started to crash again.
It seemed like it was crashing after more frames. But then it happened again after 4-5.

And the slave do sometimes restart while crashing.

Mainboard on Slave is a X99 AII.

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:37 am

Hi,
about X99 motherboard in Multi GPU mode, please have a look at this old discussion here:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68650

ciao Beppe

Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:03 am

Hi,

I did everything that was described in your Link above.
It felt stable in the beginning.
Rendered for a lot of frames.

Then when stoped the rendering. after a few minutes in idle. the slave crashed and restarted the system.
I also reset the Bios which didnt help.

Maybe I have 2 Issues with the slave, one was solved with the Fix above, but the second one is a self restarting system, not corelated with the rendering...

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:41 am

Great to hear that the X99 machine has started to render again!
About the second issue, maybe you have issues with PSU

ciao Beppe

Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:42 am

Oh well,

so it looks like nothing helped...
It felt stable but I get the same errors.
Just CInema Crashing.
Slave doesnt crash.
Sometimes it restarts. But less often.

Did a Bios Update.
Driver update.

No Idea what to try now.