# Swarms Machine Limits?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/swarms-machine-limits/440587>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** swarm, bake, unreal-engine, Rendering, question\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/swarms-machine-limits/440587 "2019-01-04T09:39:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dark\_Jubei](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Dark\_Jubei](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Dark_Jubei)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/swarms-machine-limits/440587/1 "2019-01-04T09:39:19Z")

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Hi,

I’ve been using swarm for UE4 at work for around a year now, and though all the render nodes work, there is never a time where every node is used.

I know these are connected, I know they are active and assigned to my PC, they a free and ready to use but for some reason I cant connect to all of the nodes, only a few.

 ![264125-swarm.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/e/4/d/e4d0ac88b704cfb8d8b0ef36849d1578e8214687.jpeg)

 ![264126-coord.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/8/8/c/88c69823aa437771913097a1c67f488d7ca08d58.jpeg)

Even with these nodes the bake will take a while and I’d like to use all the resources I can. At the moment several are just sitting there doing nothing. Is there an option for a machine limit? or thread limit that I’m missing as it seems like Swarm is limiting something.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_0c8ea445](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_0c8ea445](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_0c8ea445)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/swarms-machine-limits/440587/2 "2019-06-11T21:14:46Z")

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Hi there… did you find a solution/answer to this?

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**Author:** ![Dark\_Jubei](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Dark\_Jubei](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Dark_Jubei)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/swarms-machine-limits/440587/3 "2019-09-19T21:38:10Z")

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Hey! Yes kind of. I think this was a firewall issue, that our work admin needed to white-list. It could read the machines were there but couldnt access the swarm through the firewall on specific nodes after updates etc