[Radiance-general] ranimate, recovering from broken rpicts?

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi,

it is the first time I ran into trouble with ranimate... I use it, no, 
not render animations, but to distribute single picture renderings over 
an openmosix cluster (I simply use three host lines pointing to 
localhost). Now my rpicts died because of lack of memory (they all 
tried to migrate to one node at once), and I restarted ranimate in the 
hope that it would continue rendering (the pictures rendered almost one 
week so far, and I donot want to start at zero again). I was surprised 
by the following:

- When rpict failed, the frames were still filtered by pfilt, so I have 
frame001-003.pic in the output directory now.
- Still, ranimate found that something went wrong, as it started with 
-ro. I hope it will not get confused by the fact there is already a 
target file frame001.pic.
- Strange enough, ranimate recovered, but now it started just one 
process, though there are three broken (unfinished) frames and more 
waiting in the viewfile. Will it try to recover the three frames one by 
one instead of starting processes on all nodes now? That will take a 
very long time too complete, and my machines are getting lazy ;-)

So, many questions from a ranimate-beginner (and mis-user, but I don't 
want to imagine how much time it will take to render an animation of 
that scene...)

CU Lars.
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