Is there a reason slaves might not be using all of there processing power? When we submit a maya job it we only see 25-50% cpu usage, with some of the cores not appearing to do much. Is there a way to tell the slaves to fully utilize all cpus when submitting to deadline?
See FAQ item 1.16 here:
software.primefocusworld.com/sof … ayafaq.php
This sounds like this is the situation you’re running into. Let us know if this helps.
Cheers,
- Ryan
That isnt fixing the problem for most of them. Most of them still only use 25% of their power. Could it possibly be anything else?
Just to confirm, are you rendering with Mental Ray? The FAQ workaround is only for mental ray renders.
Also, you mention that this isn’t fixing the problem for most of the slaves, so does that mean that it worked for some? Are there any hardware differences between the machines it worked for and those those that it didn’t?
Finally, on the machines that it’s not working on, can you try opening the scene in Maya on those machines and try rendering locally to see if you get full CPU utilization?
Cheers,
- Ryan