I'm trying to use SMPov to render a scene across multiple CPUs, and I am
having some difficulties with it. I can kind of see where the hang-up is by
turning up the communication logging in Times.log, but I don't know how to
fix the problem. The Times.log file is full of the following message:


## 09:51:00: Sleeping till:
Z:\COM\JOB\BLOCK_09242004_095011_87176_1T_GX_9889_1.no


And here are the contents of my Z:\COM\JOB directory:

block_09242004_095011_87176.info
block_09242004_095011_87176.pnd.txt
block_09242004_095011_87176_PP.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_10T_GX_9642_1.ask
block_09242004_095011_87176_11T_GX_9889_1.ask
BLOCK_09242004_095011_87176_1T_GX_4380_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_2T_GX_1128_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_3T_GX_8757_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_4T_GX_3047_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_5T_GX_5826_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_6T_GX_4517_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_7T_GXXXX_2594_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_8T_GX_3601_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_9T_GX_3573_1.yes
block_09242004_095011_87176_1T_ 2588641 792.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_2T_ 6276931 554.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_3T_ 9629511 785.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_4T_ 9704631 727.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_5T_ 7697631 59.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_6T_ 5308321 13.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_7T_ 6703781 353.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_8T_ 6599621 388.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_9T_ 9143931 128.job
block_09242004_095011_87176_10T.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_11T.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_12T.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_13T.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_14T.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_15T.bat
block_09242004_095011_87176_16T.bat


Does this mean that computer GX_9889 is not responding? Is that the problem?
It looks like SMPov is looking for the wrong filename. GX_9889 seems to be
requesting tile 11, but SMPov seems to be looking for communicaitons on
tile 1. I tried creating a file called
BLOCK_09242004_095011_87176_1T_GX_9889_1.no, and then things seem to
progress ok, but this seems like a silly thing to need to do. Is this a
known bug on SMPov? I am using SMPov v4.2, and POVRay v3.6. All renderings
are running on 3.2GHz P4 computers. OS varies: mostly XP Pro, a few Win2K,
one NT4, and a couple Win98.

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