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Multicore problems
Hey guys
So I can’t get my Mac to pull from all 4 cores that it has. Nucleo is on the fritz, I’m dealing with them and they’re being very helpful. My problem is that I need to get AE to pull all possible resources, and I’ve been looking at articles here and can’t really find anything.
I have a quad 2.66 Mac Pro, w/9 gigs of ram.
Anyone have any advice for the settings? My activity monitor isn’t spiking, so I know I’m not getting 100% out of my box. Also, in the monitor, the 3 instances of AE are using 1.5 gigs of ram, but between 0 and 15% of the CPU potential. Whats going on here?
Thanks,
Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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[Nicholas Toth] “My activity monitor isn’t spiking, so I know I’m not getting 100% out of my box. Also, in the monitor, the 3 instances of AE are using 1.5 gigs of ram, but between 0 and 15% of the CPU potential. Whats going on here? “
One possibility is that your CPU isn’t your bottleneck. There are many other components in your computer that could be limiting your CPU, the whole of the system is only as fast as the slowest part will let it be. Some other factors could be RAM, Busses, Caches, HDs etc.
I have a similar setup and I find that the aeselflink instances tend to jump around a lot during a render in terms of % CPU being used, have you popped some popcorn, sat down and watched the aeselflink instances as they are performing a long render?
Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
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Darby,
Turns out I got bitten by the quicktime 7.4 screw up your computer bug.
I downgraded via Pacifist, and I have Nucleo Pro ripping all of my resources away. As I wanted.
I also tested the AE multiprocessing, and its repaired. My render times went from 20-21 hours to 1.2 hours.Darby, I tried to optimize my machine. I’m running the OS off of a software RAID of 2 raptors. It boots up in the drop of a dime, and transfer rates are insane. Its good because its very balanced, whereas a lot of the Ocotos have some bottlenecking (so I’ve experienced it on one of the first gen octos…).
I appreciate your comment!
Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
nicholastoth.com
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