Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'stalls'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • General
    • Lounge/General chat
    • Education
    • Jobs
    • Marketplace
  • Houdini
    • General Houdini Questions
    • Effects
    • Modeling
    • Animation & Rigging
    • Lighting & Rendering + Solaris!
    • Compositing
    • Games
    • Tools (HDA's etc.)
  • Coders Corner
    • HDK : Houdini Development Kit
    • Scripting
    • Shaders
  • Art and Challenges
    • Finished Work
    • Work in Progress
    • VFX Challenge
    • Effects Challenge Archive
  • Systems and Other Applications
    • Other 3d Packages
    • Operating Systems
    • Hardware
    • Pipeline
  • od|force
    • Feedback, Suggestions, Bugs

Product Groups

There are no results to display.


Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


Website URL


Skype


Name


Location


Interests

Found 1 result

  1. Hello, I'm having trouble with Houdini 15 on my Xubuntu machine. At first I thought it was a problem with the X-Server, because open windows wouldn't redraw themselves and I couldn't open any new ones, but then I realized that setting the mantra threads to 1 seemed to alleviate the problem (8, 7, 6, were all equally bad). It appears that spawned mantra instances kept rendering in the background, which I failed to notice from the unresponsive UI. So now my guess is that mantra hijacks too many system resources, completely stalling the Desktop environment. This applies to the Houdini UI itself too by the way - a few seconds into a preview render, the image doesn't update any more. The same with MPlay when doing an interactive render. I tried starting up Houdini with a "niceness" value of 19 and an mantra instances inherit that, but it doesn't make one bit of difference. I have a fairly beefy system, though with a consumer graphics card (Nvidia GeForce GTX 970). Nvidia drivers are the most recent ones available in the regular Ubuntu repository, i.e. 352. Do you guys have any suggestions on what might alleviate the issue, or maybe have experienced it yourself? I vaguely recall that setting priority low worked for me in the past, but that was back on Windows I think. Thanks.
×
×
  • Create New...