Newsgroups: comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.parallel.pvm From: thomas@trust.aztec-design.co.uk (Thomas Molesworth) Reply-To: thomas@bass.almac.co.uk Subject: Re: PVM PoV-Ray speed Organization: Aztec Design Linux Date: 24 Jul 1997 13:45:13 GMT Message-ID: On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:50:35 BST, Michael Searle wrote: >>> Thomas Molesworth wrote: >> OK, here's some details: > >> I'm trying to render an animation (consisting of anywhere from 80 to >> 12100 frames). PVM, PVM-POV and the output files all go to one system >> (486dx2-66), into /home/pvm which is mounted using NFS across all three >> systems with 10Mbps ethernet (standard NE2000 cards). > >So you are running the same executable on all 3 systems? >I don't know enough about PVM-POV to tell, but could you run a Pentium >optimised POV on the P133? If you were doing that before, when not using >PVM-POV, this could be the cause of the slow down. (I think there's a Linux >binary with these optimisations somewhere.) I wasn't running a Pentium-optimised binary before. Does anyone know where I could find a copy of this? I don't have a Pentium-optimised compiler :( It might be faster to just run the Pentium-optimised version than try to get PVM-pov working. -- Thomas Molesworth (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)