Limit resources to Maya?

[3Dlunatic]

Hi, Maya ninjas!

I'm rendering a sequence in Maya, and it will take hours. I'd love to use my computer for other work, such as Photoshop or Zbrush. I have a 12 core CPU and 64 gigs of RAM. Is it possible to allocate half of my CPU cores and half of my RAM to the sequence render (with Arnold) and still have enough resources to work on something else while that's going on?

Thanks for your answer, may all of your dreams come true!

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Render Settings -> System -> Render Settings -> Autodetect Threads ("disable")

Render Settings -> System -> Render Settings -> Threads (set to any value that fit your needs)

You can't limit RAM usage, this is based on number of threads and scene content.

[3Dlunatic]

Thank you. I'm not worried about RAM right now as I'm not using anywhere near my 64 gigs. It's the CPU power that was being hogged. Much appreciated, my productivity will increase dramatically thanks to your solution.