Slap a band-aid on it and move on - welcome to being a freelance TD. So there may be something much more complex going on. I haven’t looked into swap space or hardware issues or anything like that as being a potentially contributing factor. *I should note here that I’m only a freelancer and don’t have easy access to the studio’s IT staff in LA.

Now that it’s successfully rendering on slow boxes, the average frame time is higher, but the overall render is much faster, and the farm runs more efficiently. However, you can use the Bitmap pager settings of 3dsmax to reduce the. This script also had a curious result - because there are both very fast and very slow machines on this render farm, it actually increased my per frame render time - only because the failures were not counting towards that average. Since textures are managed by 3dsmax, VRay has no direct control over their memory usage. Pm.setAttr('vraySettings.sys_rayc_dynMemLimit', mem)') If you’d like to see it broken out into proper formatting (the way Python is meant to be seen) here you go: brendacovacevic : buenas este es mi primer post en la comunidad, estudio arquitectura y estoy interiorizandome en el tema de los renders, pero no logro. Python('import re as pm mem = (pm.mory(fr=True) * 0.80) pm.setAttr('vraySettings.sys_rayc_dynMemLimit', mem)') It had a big impact on reducing the failure rate of my renders, going from pretty much 100% on the slow boxes to only a batch or two per sequence. I whipped up this bit of Pre-Render Python (wrapped in MEL) that automatically queries the system’s free memory and sets the DML to 80% of that amount before rendering. Recently however we began to see hanging renders that eventually returned a “Low on memory” error, so we began to look at this attribute more closely.* By default, V-Ray seems to set its Dynamic Memory Limit to ~6.1 gigs (on all machines, not just ancient ones.) I had assumed that this was only a default render globals thing and would be adjusted dynamically just like the name implied. At the studio where I’m working currently, they have a large number of render nodes with only 8 gigs of ram.

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