batch render slower than render

[ilpoldo]

I just rendered the whole job in mental ray and it was pretty quick. But I wasn't able to make the software render go as fast... even on another machine.

anybody can guess why?

thanks.
Leandro

[pixelmonk]

network rendering? Large textures xferring across the network? Slow network storage drive? Slower networked render nodes? lots of variables.

[ilpoldo]

the situation is the most standard one on the laptop: rendering on the machine and the machine's hdd

the desktop has the scene on a second drive.

there's just a 512x512 bump map... three shaders, and a sine deformer...

Souldn't a frame usaully take about what it took to render in renderview....

[BlasT]

Hello,

The same happens to also to me. The scene rendered in the Render view takes app. 1,5min rendering with batch takes app 4 min on a G5 quad. The network here is not a problem because everything is on local disk. Instead it seems that mayabatch does not take all 4 cores, even though I set it to use all 4 cores. Strange?????

Simon

[ilpoldo]

damn! how am I supposed to tune my renders if render view works like this? I've a dual proc monocore...

mental ray in render view took about 2 mins and a half, I launched the batch and judging from the file date on finder batch was less than a minute per frame... I mean: glad to hear that but I don't understand what's goin on.
Is perhaps fault of the motion blur? my money is on that.

[cheung0402]

I have the same problem with BlasT

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