Too few nodes per job.

[juan carlos echeverry]

Greetings.

Royal render has been working  very well after the purchase and the upgrade, but there`s an issue that has always bugged us and it is the fact that RR assigns very few render nodes to jobs...... i mean.... we have 32 nodes in our farm,let`s say we have the farm empty of jobs....  and we assign a job... any job.... we can see it only assigns 5 or 6 nodes to that job... the rest of the nodes are iddle. If the farm assigned all the nodes , it would end much faster..... but almos always we see this problem. Jobs are only assigned 5 or 6 machines tops..... and the rest of the nodes are just iddle, waiting to be used..... I have tried everything i understand can be done in RRconfig, with no luck. Maybe you could help us here. 

Thank you in advance.

[RR, Schoenberger]

Hi

 

As a first step, please open rrConfig and check this setting.

If you have many jobs, then the first setting is recommended.
If you have a few jobs only, then then the second is better.

 

 

 

Sequence Divide min/max:

When what are your Sequence Divide min/max settings of a job?

Each job in RR has a setting Sequence Divide min/max.

RR decides how many frames are send to one client within this range.

 

E.g. if you have a job with 100 frames and the Sequence Divide min/max is set to 5-10,

then the number of clients rendering the job range from (100/5)=20 to (100/10)=10 clients.

So even if you change the rrConfig setting, there can be max 20 clients rendering on that one job.

 

More information on Sequence Divide can be found here:

https://www.royalrender.de/help/SequenceDivide.html

 

 

Please note that the RR might adjust this setting if it is too low.

A client should render at least 2 minutes on a job without the setting “KeepSceneOpen”

and 45 seconds on a job with “KeepSceneOpen” enabled.

So if you render a job with a frame time of 10 seconds, each client should render at least 5 frames with “KeepSceneOpen”

and  12 frames without “KeepSceneOpen”.

This is done due to the overhead starting the render application, loading the scene and other tiny factors.

 

 

 

regards,
Holger Schönberger

 

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