#Novell / dinosaur lockup
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Hello,
I'm trying to Net Render on my school computers in a CAD class. They
are running Netware 3.12 and the majority of them are 386-40's with 4Mb of RAM
and 40 Mb hard drives. I installed SLAVE-RENDER configuration to them and the
have about 8-10 Mb free on HDD. When I run 3ds4 on them (with the 3DSNET.SET
set to slave) they display the 3D-EDITOR screen, but never get to the familiar
"MACHINE IN SLAVE MODE PRESS ESC TO CANCEL". The keyboard doesn't lock up but
the CPU freezes. Are these dinosaurs just too far gone or am I doing something
Wrong. PS I already got this to work on 486's with Lantastic in a different
situation.
Any feedback would
be appreciated
Thanks,
JIM
James:
4 MB of RAM is no doubt your problem. For what I do 32MB is a practical
minimum. However, I have gotten 3DS to function on 8MB on a laptop but I did
not use any bitmapped materials or cast any shadows. With so little RAM your
machines would swap almost immediately to the hard disks if you got them
rendering at all. You've mentioned that they only have 8-10 MB free hard disk
space which is very little also. As soon as this swap space is used up your
machines will hang. If you have any machines available that have more RAM and
disk space you can get a good idea of the resources you will need on your
slaves by checking the stats at the bottom of the render screen. The stats
will tell you the amount of RAM used and the amount of swap space used as well.
– Bob Ritger
James,
Sorry to tell you, but 4 megs o' RAM just won't cut it. With that little HD
space available for swap files, 16 megs would be a realistic minimum.
SCL