From: "Tom Lafferty" <laff@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Jobs per proc
   Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:39:39 -0700

How can I set my renders to use 1 machine for each job (2 procs), instead of 
2 jobs per machine. 

Tom Lafferty wrote:

How can I set my renders to use 1 machine for each job (2 procs), instead of 2 jobs per machine.

	See the section on "Threaded Rendering" here:
	http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/rush-techniques.html#Threading

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Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
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Hi Greg,

MAIN  .0  info : mental ray, version 3.4.5.4

WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost0 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost1 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost2 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost3 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost4 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost5 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost6 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost7 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost8 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost9 is an unknown host
FATAL ERROR (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray) at 09/26/2005 11:39:40 AM :
    Can't connect to any SPM license server.
--- RAY FAILED WITH EXITCODE=255 (65280)

the ray version is 3.4.5

thanks

Luigi Tommaseo
Digital Systems Manager
Senate Visual Effects
Twickenham Film Studios
St.Margarets
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 2AW

Tel: (Tel# suppressed)
luigi@(email surpressed)
www.senatevfx.com

to reply to myself, I just had to add

$ENV{SPM_HOST} = "licensehost";

Luigi Tommaseo
Digital Systems Manager
Senate Visual Effects
Twickenham Film Studios
St.Margarets
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 2AW

Tel: (Tel# suppressed)
luigi@(email surpressed)
www.senatevfx.com

On 26 Sep 2005, at 11:47, Luigi Tommaseo wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Hi Greg,

I am trying to get rush to submit to mentalray standalone but with the script I have it doesn't fins the license server. if I run the command from the command line on the render box it's all fine but when going through rush it comes up with:

Executing: /usr/local/mi34/bin/ray //vfxxserve4/maya/Dan/ Mental_Test_01/mentalRay/test_02_renderExport.mi -verbose on - file_name 1

MAIN  .0  info : mental ray, version 3.4.5.4

MAIN .0 info : use -copyright option to view copyright and terms of use. WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): Can't connect to 127.0.0.1 ("mi- spm"[tcp/7050]) (111: Connection refused)

WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost0 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost1 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost2 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost3 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost4 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost5 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost6 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost7 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost8 is an unknown host
WARNING (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray): spmhost9 is an unknown host
FATAL ERROR (/usr/local/mi34/bin/ray) at 09/26/2005 11:39:40 AM :
    Can't connect to any SPM license server.
--- RAY FAILED WITH EXITCODE=255 (65280)

the ray version is 3.4.5

the SPM_HOST environment variable is set and ray should look for it but when used with rush it doesn't. any pointers on how to get it working?

thanks

Luigi Tommaseo
Digital Systems Manager
Senate Visual Effects
Twickenham Film Studios
St.Margarets
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 2AW

Tel: (Tel# suppressed)
luigi@(email surpressed)
www.senatevfx.com

Luigi Tommaseo wrote:

to reply to myself, I just had to add

$ENV{SPM_HOST} = "licensehost";

at the beginning of the file and use mentalrayrender instead of ray, all seem fine for now.

	Yes, that's exactly what was needed.