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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: CPU/thread performance drop with Corona Triplanar

« on: 2023-09-13, 14:16:44 »

We are also having a lot of rendering speed problems with  10.1. Will files be affected in any way if we revert to 9.3?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona Lights display performance

« on: 2022-11-29, 10:30:19 »

Yes, but there is no solution yet?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona Lights display performance

« on: 2022-11-25, 16:01:26 »

Hi, thanks for looking into this. Yes, it gets tough to move, hope it will be sorted out.

Thanks,
H

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona Lights display performance

« on: 2022-11-25, 14:32:22 »

Bumping up this old topic, we have issues with viewport performance when having several hundred sphere lights in the file. The workaround, for now, is to have them as a disc with 3 sides and turn into a sphere before rendering, but is there any way to improve its performance with sphere lights? We`ve set gizmo to 0, wireframe visibility.

Thanks,
H

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Hardware / Re: 10Gbe setup

« on: 2022-02-02, 11:28:25 »

That is what I want to find out. Does 80 Gbit work only for each node at that speed (if it can achieve it) or it allows eight nodes on 10 Gbit connection to run at pretty much max speed?

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Hardware / Re: 10Gbe setup

« on: 2022-01-26, 09:22:28 »

Thanks for getting into it. I will do some more testing with 2-3 vs 8-10 nodes without any other work besided DR is done. Crystal Mark shows on each node 1150 RW, so all good with that.

Regarding hardware setup with 8 adapters port trunked, is that the way to go or we should alter it?

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Hardware / Re: 10Gbe setup

« on: 2022-01-24, 13:32:00 »

You are correct, but shouldn`t all nodes be at max 1.1-2. GBps since network isn`t bottleneck? Issue occurs when uploading 3dsmax file in DR and sending passes to the master, doesn`t go below 300 MBps, but rarely higher when 7-8 nodes upload at the same time. I`m not benchmarking when copying multiple files, but only at DR. Could be 3dsmax issue, don`t know.

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Hardware / Re: 10Gbe setup

« on: 2022-01-24, 08:01:11 »

Hi,

Yes it`s a very complex subject, I agree. We use ssd for everything except backup, so there shouldn`t be any bottleneck there. Also, all nodes and NAS run Intel x540-t2 nics, not embedded ones. So my question is should we expect 10 GbE speeds on at least 5-6 at a time since we have 80Gbps speeds or it just doesn`t work that way?

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Hardware / 10Gbe setup

« on: 2022-01-20, 16:12:43 »

Hi all, we`ve been running 10GbE setup for quite some time now, and I would like to be sure we have it setup right as sometimes it doesn`t perform as (I think) it should. We have Qnap TS-2888 connected to Cisco 350x 10GbE via 8 ports in port trunk showing 80Gbps speed. All workstations and render nodes have 10 GbE nics and run full 10 Gbps speed. Thing is that when rendering in DR, when 7-8 nodes are downloading max file, they download at around 300-500 Mbps, even though theoratically should be close to 1000 Mbps. When we purchased the NAS, Qnap support recommended this setup, what do you think?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Bad allocation DR

« on: 2021-10-27, 12:55:10 »

I`ve opened new thread, forgot we posted this before.

Anyone else experiencing bad allocation when rendering DR?

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[Max] I need help! / DR bad allocation

« on: 2021-10-27, 12:37:06 »

We are experiencing DR issues with some scenes (not all, still investigating) when rendering 6k resolution renders. When using 2-3 nodes all works ok, but if we add more to the job, we get bad allocation error. Anyone else came across this issue?

Thanks,
H

edit:devs, please delete this thread

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: endless parsing scene

« on: 2021-10-14, 14:29:43 »

Happens to us to from time to time, even on nodes which have job sent via Pulze. Alot of performance issues with latest build.

H

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[Max] I need help! / Re: RAM problem

« on: 2021-10-07, 15:50:48 »

Just tested, removed complex IOR on all materials that had it and it solved our performance issues. Thanks Ubermaki!

Dev team, please include it in C7 hotfix!

edit: It`s new corona converter fault, for some reason it converts vray materials w/o any map in IOR, to top/bottom, mix, whatever set and f*** performance. I am pretty sure 75% performance issue qestions/threads posted here lately are due to this.

H

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[Max] I need help! / Re: RAM problem

« on: 2021-10-07, 14:24:47 »

Is it possible to get this fix as a hotfix in Corona 7?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: CPU frequency

« on: 2021-10-04, 12:50:00 »

We also get inconsistent cpu frequency lately, not sure why. Started happending when we went to 3ds max 2022 and C7.1.