DoSe Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 (edited) Apologies if this is posted elsewhere, I couldn't find anything via a search. We are experiencing serious slow down on the first frame of an animation. It seems like each of the 7 machines can take upwards of 4 hours to complete the first frame, and then settle down to about 13mins average. I "think" that it's each machine hitting the saved light cache at the same time which is about 200mb saved out from the pre-pass. We are using a Buffalo Terra-station as a file server, and I can only think that it's the speed of this, and the concurrent connections that are killing each machine at the start. If i babysit the render in backburner, and start each server individually once the previous has started the first frame, it seems to be fine.. So, any suggestions?? Do i need to build a new file server, probably Linux, with a 2/4 gigabit network card, fast hdd's, RAID card and a speedy processor (no chance I'm going down the windows server road, as it's just too expensive)... Cheers D Edited June 20, 2011 by DoSe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cupsster Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 try to copy manually/automatic all files to same location as on pre-pass machine.. this should eliminate networking stress.. [should be pretty easy to write script for that] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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