[Radiance-general] starting rpict -S 1 -P pfile

[Lars O. Grobe]

> It may just be that you need to use the -PP option rather than -P, 
> which doesn't do parallel processing.  (The -P "persist mode" is a 
> relatively little-used option that permits serial execution without 
> the associated startup costs -- it's more valuable for rtrace than 
> rpict.)
>
> Also, each of your rpict -PP commands should be handed the same set of 
> views on the standard input.  Otherwise, nothing will happen.

I cannot use -PP because my openmosix doesn't support shared memory. I 
forgot to pass the view file, as I read that command line parameters 
don't have to be passed. Of course, I don't pass views as command line 
parameters, but from stdin, so I have to feed the view file for each 
process, right? ;-)

I think that if I start more than one -P process, they WILL run 
parallel (even if they use much more memory than the shared -PP 
processes), right?

Thank You, CU Lars.