Hi Houdini Gurus,
Could somebody give me a clue on why telling mantra “-H localhost” gets the render speed down by at least 100%, as compared to plain “mantra”? It just doesn't make sense to me.
After doing some networked renders, thought that it's my 100Mb network that is slowing things down, and when I get a 1Gb switch things will get better. But the slowdown occurs on localhost, too, so networking should not be an issue here.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Greg
mantra -H is much slower than withouth -H on localhost
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Splitting up a render for multiple hosts adds overhead. I can't speak to the amount of overhead and it's impact on final render times, there's a lot of variables that can effect that that are local, such as infrastructure, what you're rendering, etc. Twice as long seems high to me, but not if you're talking about a trivial render. Splitting out over the network tends to be useful for more intense renders.
Cheers,
J.C.
Cheers,
J.C.
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