Ah - is that so - it may very well be this, as the spm server software here is not up to date as far as I know - will have to investigate!
Thanks!
S.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Harry Bardak
Sent: Thu 8/3/2006 11:42 AM
To: Sandy E. Sutherland
Subject: RE: A dual Core question
another thing that you may investigate.
Did you install the last SPM server ? the last one recognized a dual core processor like one physical processor instead of 2.
Maybe your are running out of licenses.
Harry Bardak TD / Compositor. Http://perso.wanadoo.fr/harry.bardak/ +33 6 76 63 35 54+44 781 661 4147
> Subject: RE: A dual Core question> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:42:58 +0200> From: sandy(at)waterfrontstudios.co.za> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM> > Hi Orlando - thanks for this info - will give it a bash!> > Cheers> > Sandy> > > > -----Original Message-----> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Orlando Esponda> Sent: Thu 8/3/2006 1:57 AM> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM> Subject: Re: A dual Core question> > If the machines have windows, you can see both cpu bars go to 100, but > it's a little tricky and i don't think this solution "work" with a > renderfarm... right click on the xsibatch process (task managaer) > and select "set afinity", select the cpus you want and you're done. > Some times you have to do it 2 or 3 times in every machine to set it as > "default"... weird and tricky but works.> > Sandy E. Sutherland wrote:> > >> > Hi all,> >> > The guys here are installing a whole bunch of new render machine, > > which consist of single CPU Dual Core machines - now when they render > > using Royal Render - i.e. XSI Batch - they only show rendering on 1 > > CPU...er....core out of the 2 - anyone know if there is something that > > needs to be set to take advantage of the dual core - or is it like > > this???? I am expecting that like HT, you see both CPU Bars in the > > Task Manager go to 100%!!!> >> > Any ideas?> >> > Thanks> >> > Sandy> >> > ---> Unsubscribe? Mail Majordomo(at)Softimage.COM with the following text in body:> unsubscribe xsi>
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