Daily Builds 1.6

[Ondra]

already implemented :D 1.5 had embree 2.11 and 1.4 had 2.9 that probably caused the memory usage and/or freezing/lagging problems. Hopefully everything is fixed now - we worked on a fix with the embree team.

Can you implement Embree of 1.3?

Can you buy more RAM?

[GabaCGStudio]

1.4 used less memory than 1.3 on the same scenes.

i'm not sure about newer embree!
what about this?
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,13090.msg84645.html#msg84645

[GabaCGStudio]

Can you buy more RAM?

nope ... i have 30 nodes with this config: i7 - 4790K + 16GB of ram and can't upgrade this shit :]

[Ondra]

Ok, I am not gonna question where did you came across that hardware, or where did you get corona licenses...

I will just say that your presence on the forum after you got banned for using crack was tolerated only because you stopped complaining over and over on the memory usage, but that might change, so think carefully ;)

[GabaCGStudio]

Ok, I am not gonna question where did you came across that hardware, or where did you get corona licenses...

I will just say that your presence on the forum after you got banned for using crack was tolerated only because you stopped complaining over and over on the memory usage, but that might change, so think carefully ;)

nope ... i'm just using 4 nodes for Corona ! :] other nodes for enemy renderengine!!
and my mainboards only support maximum 16GB of ram ...

[Ludvik Koutny]

Then why do you mention 30 if you use just 4 for corona? And 8 sticks of 8GB DDR3 RAM modules to add 16gb to each of those 4 machines are not really that much these days. If you can afford to run farm of 4 relatively new i7 machines, then you certainly can afford 8 sticks of 8gig DDR3s for about 300 bucks. >:|

[GabaCGStudio]

Then why do you mention 30 if you use just 4 for corona? And 8 sticks of 8GB DDR3 RAM modules to add 16gb to each of those 4 machines are not really that much these days. If you can afford to run farm of 4 relatively new i7 machines, then you certainly can afford 8 sticks of 8gig DDR3s for about 300 bucks. >:|

nope ... my mainboards are mATX factor and just have two RAM modules.

Then why do you mention 30 if you use just 4 for corona?

for future ... probably Decision to buy 30 license of Corona ;)

[pokoy]

I'd say going with only 16GB per node is risky anyways.

[FrostKiwi]

then you certainly can afford 8 sticks of 8gig DDR3s for about 300 bucks. >:|

Spending towards improving work is tax deductible.

Also bizzare special conditions:
Parents built House with music school, 39% of house area is "regularly" accessed by pupils = We pay 39% less for toilet paper. Yay German Tax Laws.

[Jpjapers]

I think the RAM usage has improved drastically since 1.3 but it all depends on how big youre rendering. For example, Our workstations at work only had 32gb ram and the nodes only had 16gb. i could render out 4k shots easily on my workstation but then i had a project where i needed to be rendering 15000px wide images. I tried using the nodes but  It would crash out every time so we upgraded to 128GB RAM on the workstation and have never looked back.

[scionik]

Corona team, could you please compile post there Corona 1.5 for released PR72? thanks

[Ondra]

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[Ondra]

Is anybody still using legacy CPU corona version? If so, what 3dsmax versions? I am thinking of dropping legacy builds for daily builds, it seems only a small percentage of people actually have such old CPU...

[FrostKiwi]

Is anybody still using legacy CPU corona version? If so, what 3dsmax versions? I am thinking of dropping legacy builds for daily builds, it seems only a small percentage of people actually have such old CPU...

With Intel Processors it's simple, considering barely any PC will have core 2 Quads from 2007 or earlier.
6-core Phenom IIs however were still in production in 2011, packed a punch and quite a view are still around.
We cannot possibly know how much of the user base uses these in old Servers and possible older render nodes, since no Benchmark from Corona supported legacy. In the a4 benchmark thread 5 posts asked about / commented on phenom support out of 38 pages, in the 1.3 Thread 1 post out of 10 pages.

You can safely assume, that your testing crowd won't cry for dropped support, as long as the proper releases will have the option. Besides, I presume you are flexible enough to build legacy upon request, if there happen to be daily users with Phenom II nodes requests.

[johan belmans]

Is anybody still using legacy CPU corona version? If so, what 3dsmax versions? I am thinking of dropping legacy builds for daily builds, it seems only a small percentage of people actually have such old CPU...

no