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I have gone through quite a few threads here trying to find an answer, but have not come across anything quite like my issue.

Basically, I have three slaves. All three are checked on and the network have no issue seeing them. However, when rendering, it will only use 2 of the slaves at a time. I can't see how it picks which two slaves to use however. I need my main computer to actually USE all three slaves.

I can confirm through Nvidia tools that only two at a time are being used and one is left out even though the Daemon states on all three that they are receiving the order to render.

None of the files i'm testing with are heavy on geometry or texture use.

Is there a max of 2 slaves that I can't seem to find documented?

Details:

Master computer:
2010 Macintosh with 2 Titans.
OS 10.10.5
2 Titans

Slaves:
Digital Storm PC
Windows 8.1
4 Titans

2 Rendering Blades
Windows server 2012 R2 Standard
4 Tesla K80's

Network:
1Gb network connection. Upgrading to 10Gb soon

Any help would be appreciated. I can add more details as requested.

Hi,
you have reached the max GPU limit per IP master that is 12. The only solution that I see is to disable a couple of Tesla in order to stay inside the max number allowed.
ciao beppe

bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
you have reached the max GPU limit per IP master that is 12. The only solution that I see is to disable a couple of Tesla in order to stay inside the max number allowed.
ciao beppe

Thank you so much

So the twelve limit includes the local Titans on my Mac? I'm asking because all that ever shows up on render status is 2 slaves and 8/8 cards, where i feel i should be able to run 3 slaves 12/12 cards. Unless of course the 12 limit does include my two local Titans

4x K80 cards? That's 8 GPUs already (as k80 is Dual GPU card), then 4x Titan Titans on the slave - limmit reached..

so You would have to disable at least 2GPUs if You wish to use all slaves with pair of cards on Your mac, or..leave one card in mac for screens only & use slave with one Titan disabled.

glimpse wrote:4x K80 cards? That's 8 GPUs already (as k80 is Dual GPU card), then 4x Titan Titans on the slave - limmit reached..

so You would have to disable at least 2GPUs if You wish to use all slaves with pair of cards on Your mac, or..leave one card in mac for screens only & use slave with one Titan disabled.

Thank you. This answered my question about the local cards. I'll disable two cards

One last question (and it's probably stupid). I'm setting up one of the slaves to use just two cards, but i can't seem to find the proper syntax for telling what cards to use. My plugin lists them at gpu0, gpu1, gpu3 and gpu4. Entering those, or just the digit crashes the run_installed_daemon app

Figured it out. Thanks all