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Rays/s actual sooo low and render time soooo high :(((

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Nejc Kilar:
As soon as you start "Running out of RAM" what happens is that instead of reading scene data from RAM (which is super fast) Corona starts reading it from your SSD / HDD and both are orders of magnitude slower than your RAM. So any time your are running out of RAM it is expected that the rendering process will get slower - a lot slower if you have a lot of data that doesn't fit into your RAM.

So basically, your computer stores things it needs for fast processing in your RAM. If your RAM is full then all the applications need to search for that data on your SSD / HDD which as we've established is a lot slower. Think of it like feeding the CPU with data, if you can't feed it with enough data fast enough it won't help that it's the UBER MILLION CORES CPU as it'll be bottlenecked by having to fetch that data from hardware that's a lot slower. It literally won't be able to calculate at it's fullest potential because the data to calculate can't be delivered to it fast enough.

Your best remedy? Upgrade to more RAM if possible or try to optimize your scenes so that they fit into your RAM (smaller textures / HDRIs, less subdivided geometry etc...).

DRWZDC:

--- Quote ---Your best remedy? Upgrade to more RAM if possible or try to optimize your scenes so that they fit into your RAM (smaller textures / HDRIs, less subdivided geometry etc...).
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Unfortunately I cannot upgrade the MacMini M1 in terms of RAM. I also tried to optimize the scene.
Well…I shared the scene with the private Uploader and hope that you guys find the mistake which causes the problem.

And if its "only" the RAM…what else can I do to get those Renderings out of the machine?
Should I use a Renderfarm?
Should I in general look for a better "Rendering-Machine"?

BigAl3D:
I think the M1 strategy will serve Apple well, and I'm waiting for a pro model next year, but the M1 Mini is not up to the task of that type of rendering and I love using Macs (minus falling behind on speed over the years). You're running C4D via Rosetta 2 so it's being emulated which slows things down. You're using an old version of Corona which is slower. If you're already paying for Corona, why not update to v7? They have fixed a lot of things since v5. Many people use textures that are larger than they need. If there is a clock in the background for example, I've seen people use a 700 MB JPG for the face of the clock. Keeping in mind that clock only uses about 50x50 pixels of screen size. Corona will have to load that 700 MB file into RAM, then down-sample the image to 50x50 pixels since that's all that is required for the final image. This is true with ANY render engine by the way.

Open up the texture folder for that scene and sort by SIZE. See what you have lurking in there and see how large it's being used in the scene. You might be surprised

Is this project a paid client for you? I'd love to see the room to get a better feel.

DRWZDC:

--- Quote ---If you're already paying for Corona, why not update to v7?
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Yes, I updated to Corona 7 yesterday but still the render process stays looooooong – tooooooooo long with that scene.


--- Quote ---Open up the texture folder for that scene and sort by SIZE. See what you have lurking in there and see how large it's being used in the scene. You might be surprised
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I also did that but unfortunately wasnt surprised at all. ;) Only the concrete woodstamp texture is quite big (100MB) but is also an important and main material in the scene. But still, maybe I should size it a bit down.


--- Quote ---Is this project a paid client for you? I'd love to see the room to get a better feel.
--- End quote ---
Yes it is. But because of privacy reasons I cannot yet post it here. It is a beautiful interior for a beautiful villa in switzerland.


--- Quote ---It would be handy if you can share the scene with us.
You can use our private uploader here: https://corona-renderer.com/upload
Let me know the outcome.
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I uploaded the file in C4D R21 and Corona 7 inclusive the textures of course. So I am very curious what the Corona-Team will find.
Me too, I will check the scene for some crazy geometry and materials…hopefully we will get a result so I can render the images out.

By the way, has anybody suggestions about a HP Workstation to use for the renderjobs instead of the Mac Mini M1 what can do the layout but not the renderjob.
What specifications are the best for cost effectiveness?

Thanks!!

BigAl3D:
Yeah, I'm curious too what they will find.

On the Mac issue, we just added a loaded Mac Mini in one work station. Mostly for video editing, but I tested it to see how well it rendered with C4D to see if it's worth it to use as a render client. I always use the Grapes.c4d scene in the content browser as a real-world benchmark. The Mini is slightly faster than the old Trashcan™ to give you an idea. It rendered that scene in a little over 8 min. The iMac Pro I'm using right now, cranks out that scene in 3:19. Of course C4D is running natively on the iMac Pro and under Rosetta on the Mini.

Can't argue with going with PC and Threadripper CPU. Those things are blazing fast. Expensive, but time is money right? Good luck.

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