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Mental Ray

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#1

We are rendering an HD res Maya file and are receiving this error message:



Error Message

Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1





Slave Log

: STDOUT: mental ray: out of memory

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---- September 22 2006 – 06:19 PM ----

0: STDOUT: mental ray: out of memory

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0: INFO: Process return code: 1

Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:

Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1





Error Type

RenderPluginException





Error Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTasks(Int32 startTask, Int32 endTask)

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTask(Int32 task)

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 frame)

at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()





After so many errors the task re-queues and nothing ever gets rendered. Is there a memory limit that can be set higher somewhere, or could this be a problem with the file?



We did a test render in HD earlier today and it came out fine. What’s the deal?

#2

Hi Adam,



I googled the problem, and a common suggestion is to tweak your Memory and Performance settings in the mental ray tab in the Maya Render Settings window.



Try increasing the Physical memory setting (if you have the extra RAM). A common suggestion is to set it to 80% of your available RAM. You could also try tweaking the Acceleration method settings.



Hope this helps!



Cheers,

  • Ryan


#3

After increasing the Physical memory setting we still got the same error.



I think the scene we were trying to render was just too overloaded with exremely hi-res models that didn’t need to be there.



We toned the scene down and haven’t run into any problems yet.

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