RedRushes/RedLine stalls during render

[nuelsen]

When running clips through RedRushes on an 8 core MacPro, RR will process several clips and then stall. If I bring up the OSX activity monitor (see image below) it shows all cores have dropped to almost 0% except for one core that is pegged at 100% red. It is not always the same core that gets "stuck". I can shut RR down and force quit the RedLine process, but the one core still remains stuck at 100%. At this point the system will not restart and must be powered off manually using the power button.

This happens every time with RR, so I started exporting scripts and using RedLine. I've had better luck with RL, but sometimes still get a "stuck" core.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas as to what might be causing it? Thanks in advance for any help, and let me know if you need any more info.

 

[nuelsen]

Wow, 108 views and no ideas? I guess I'll give this one a shot. Try adding more RAM.

 

[Dillon Brown]

Hey, the same exact thing is happening to me and I will let you know if I find out why... have you found out what the issue is by any chance?

Here is the thread I posted today about the problem
http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27196

I am trying to transcode the clips on a Mac Pro system running Mac OS 10.4 and with Duel Xeon 2.8 GHz Processors and 4 GB on RAM. Ample hard drive space, nothing else running, etc. I really don't know what is the issue.

 

[nuelsen]

Hi Dillon

The first thing I would do is add more RAM (4GB is a little on the light side). For under $200 you should be able to pick up another 8GB. We did this and the problem got significantly better.

Also, you may want to try outputting to a different drive. We've had less crashes when outputting to our NAS than to an Avid Unity workspace.

Good luck. Let me know how it goes.