<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Andrea,<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
If I decide to use 14 jobs in the renderfarm, starting from node 1025,<br>
I have to open 14 terminals and in each of them write:<br>
{path}./cin -d (or -D?) 1025<br>
then 1026<br>
...<br>
1038<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">No, you just need to use 1 terminal window and keyin:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> {path}./cin -d 1025</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> {path}./cin -d 1026</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> {path}./cin -d 1027</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> {path}./cin -d 1028 and so on (I could not get uppercase D to work)<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Here is an example of what I did and saw:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div># ./cin -d 410<br>Cinelerra Infinity - built: Jun 25 2020 19:59:25<br>git://<a href="http://git.cinelerra-gg.org/goodguy/cinelerra.git">git.cinelerra-gg.org/goodguy/cinelerra.git</a><br>(c) 2006-2019 Heroine Virtual Ltd. by Adam Williams<br>2007-2020 mods for Cinelerra-GG by W.P.Morrow aka goodguy<br>Cinelerra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,<br>and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under<br>certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for Cinelerra.<br><br># RenderFarmClient::main_loop: client started</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Then when you keyin the next line, you will see these jobs sitting around waiting for something to do:</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"># </span>ps -ef | grep cin<br>root 3621 3342 99 15:45 pts/1 02:39:35 ./cin<br>root 4658 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 401<br>root 4662 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 402<br>root 4666 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 403<br>root 4670 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 404<br>root 4674 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 405<br>root 4678 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 406<br>root 4686 1272 0 16:05 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 407<br>root 4690 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 408<br>root 4694 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 409<br>root 4698 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 411<br>root 4704 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 412<br>root 4708 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 413<br>root 4713 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 414<br>root 4717 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 415<br>root 4721 1272 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 416<br>root 4733 1272 4 16:07 pts/2 00:00:00 ./cin -d 410</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">THEN you start the render and if you watch with the command line "top", you will see the 15 jobs all running and if you look in the directory where you rendered the file to, you will see 15 files changing size. When each of the cin -d jobs finish, you will see in the terminal window where you started them, the following:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> RenderFarmClientThread::run: Session finished.<br> RenderFarmClientThread::run: Session finished.<br> RenderFarmClientThread::run: Session finished.<br> RenderFarmClientThread::run: Session finished. and so on<br></div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- "cin" gives me "unknown command" error, "./cin" works instead.<br></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I will fix the manual to correct "cin" to be "./cin" instead.</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- RenderMux does nothing; I certainly don't know how to use it.<br></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">RenderMux will not do anything</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">until the render farm rendering is finished. It is just used to put the 15 files together. GG puts the files together all of the time and sees no weirdness between the files. You have to use RenderMux in the same session that you rendered right afterwards because it keeps track of the file name you chose (or you can run it manually later from {path}/doc/RenderMux.sh )</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">However, on my laptop with 16 cores, BigBuckBunny 1920x1080 rendered using all 11-14 cpus automatically and took almost 10 minutes. When I used the Render Farm method instead, it took 9 minutes so IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO FIGURE OUT WHY YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT USING MULTIPLE THREADS TO RENDER.<br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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