Getting the Best out of Mulit Processing

[Walter Soyka]

Your i7 has a feature called hyperthreading, which creates 2 virtual cores for each physical core in your machine.

AE needs a lot of RAM for multiprocessing. Each render instance (number of CPUs/cores used) requires its own, and I still use 2-4 GB per core as my rule of thumb, plus a decent amount of RAM for system overhead. If you don’t have enough RAM, multiprocessing will actually render slower than non-multiprocessing.

To use 4 cores, I’d recommend having 16 GB of RAM.

If you can add RAM to your machine, that will improve your multiprocessing significantly. If not, you should probably leave it off.

Walter Soyka
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[Michael Szalapski]

I’m with Walter, you’re on the edge of being able to use Multi Processing. You will have to try a bit of tweaking to see if you can get it to work. Perhaps this post will give you some ideas on where to start. [Link] Don’t forget to check the thread linked in it. Tons of people with various setups posting their findings.

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[Raine Vivian]

Yeah, I was thinking about upgrading to 16 gigs. Okay great, thank you guy for your input. I really appreciate it. I’ll try and remember to update this post when I get more Ram. Thanks again.

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