render host is not responding

[max.m]

hi there, i work on a scene with about 13million polygons. i did the tests with distr. rendering with 2 computers. since 2 hours one render host doesn`t render any more, i get the message: "warning: render host unknown(ip adress) is not responding"

all paths are unc, checked it in asset tracking.

can it be the the ram-usage is too high for the pc that doen`t render(4gig ram)? the other one has 8gig ram.

in teh task manager i saw that the ram usage of the 2 3dsmax.exe processes is about 8 gig.

[Jed-UK]

Hi I am having the similar problem. My scene wont start the nodes at all but if I reduce the scene down to only a few components then it does?? I am using diplacement modifier on brick surfaces and hundreds of profiles shapes. I wish there was a good book on Vray Dr. Is Vray proxy the solution??

[Tommy L]

try turning off map filtering in the render panel (Globals) and in the displacement modifier. See if it renders....other than that, you'll have to post more information.

[max.m]

thanks for your replies,

@jed-uk: if your nodes don`t render because of the ram-usage, proxys can be a solution as they reduce the ram-usage.

 

@tommy l: which more informations would be usefull to indicate the problem?

[Jed-UK]

thanks for reply, it isnt ram usage with me. I tried turning of the map filters no luck unfotunately Could it be large file size? I have onyx grass in the scene and that pushes the files size just a little J

[max.m]

i made rendertests now for a while and my problem correponds with the number of polygons in the scene. up to 8 million polygons in the scene the scene is transferred to both pc`s. if i have more polygons the scene woun`t be transferred to the 2. computer.i rose the virtual memory of this rendernode to 12gb, but it didn`t work.

can someone tell me this problem is caused by the fact, that the pc(which the scene is not transferred to) has too little ram(4 gb) or if there is a limit of polygons in the scene when i want to use dr?