Rendering

[Awesome Possum]

hey man,
I run lightwave 7.5 on the exact same system with the same cpu/ram and everything and have been wondering about the speed for a long time. I know that dual chips are not supported for the mac.....yet. Hopefully when lightwave 8 comes out there will be support for dual processors. As for the 5% use of the ram i have no idea why it would use so little ram.

Keep Wavin :wavey:

Awesome possum

[4dartist]

Hey how do you guys see the system resourses like that? I use 2 Mac here both Duel Processors and that would be nice to se what system resources are being used.. hehe.. Oh and My Lightwave 7.5 works with my 2 processors just fine. You guys know about LWSN? Or screamernet?

Here at work we use LWSN and actually i can render on my second processor and rarely if ever feel a hit on my computers performence when im modeling or animateing.. only thing i think hit my system is a lower amount of ram available. I can render out twice as many frames as our single processor G3 computers. And faster by far.

If i can find that documentation on LWSN i had that showed me how to do it ill post it. hehe till then im back to work 8)~

[policarpo]

just out of curiosity...what happens when you set your threads to 8? also, how much RAM are you allocating to your camera?

[4dartist]

We set our memory in LW to be just enough to render in 1 pass instead of 2 or more. I usually just bump it up to 60 or more, but i think u could get away with putting it a lot less and still get it to go in 1 pass.. As for threads i never really look at what its at.. i think 1 is safest and i can still render on both processors with it set to 1 8), i don't think LWSN checks for that number when it does its render. I would doubt screamernet would either but unsure on that.

I don't think you were askin me that question but just thought i would give ya my settings as well hehe 8)

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Thanks guys. Does anyone know of some documentation for LWSN?

To find out the system recourses on a running application:
1. open the terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/terminal)
2. type in the following without quotes "top"
3. and there you have it. real time feedback of the resources used by each app.

Thanks again everyone for posting.

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