posible in houdini on cooking sims

[leifdk]

is it possible to control how many of ones proses ors Houdini have access to

just to save power to be able to cook a simulation and at the same time do other stuff

[graham]

You can pass the -j # flag to Houdini when you launch it from the command line, where # is the maximum number of processors to let it use.

houdini -j 2 to let it use a maximum of 2 processors for example.

[JRoberts86]

You can pass the -j # flag to Houdini when you launch it from the command line, where # is the maximum number of processors to let it use.

houdini -j 2 to let it use a maximum of 2 processors for example.

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Hi there, is it possible to define the numbers of processors used by a ROP Geometry output driver?

It would be great to have a command section like on the Mantra render node or if anyone knows of a way to set up an environment variable which defines the number of processors used by Houdini.

Many Thanks

James

Edited January 26, 2011 by JRoberts86

[lukeiamyourfather]

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Hi there, is it possible to define the numbers of processors used by a ROP Geometry output driver?

It would be great to have a command section like on the Mantra render node or if anyone knows of a way to set up an environment variable which defines the number of processors used by Houdini.

Many Thanks

James

A ROP Geometry driver doesn't behave the same as Mantra. It will use as many processors as it needs or doesn't need based on what parent nodes are being cooked. For example if there's only a Point SOP then it will use just one core, or if there's a VOP SOP set to use 4 threads then it will use four cores when cooking that node.