Unreal using only 1 of 2 xeons. Does UE4 supports dual xeon rigs?

Development Rendering
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I’ve built a dual xeon machine.
I tested it on cinebench first and it works like it should. 100% load on all cores.

but with unreal engine (and other programs) the load is only 50%.

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whats wrong with this? can anyone help?

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For the Swarm Agent:
Developer settings > Show Developer Menu > True

LocalJobDefaultProcessor Count XX
RemoteJobsDefaultProcessor Count XX

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i know, i have that set to 72. but it doesnt work. the picture above is what i get. no where near 100% load.

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Are you trying to build lighting?

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yes i do.
(i need 10 characters)

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bump
cmon, anyone with dual xeons? i need an answer on this pretty fast guys. thanks

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A couple of things to check:

  • What does the log file say?
  • How many bars do you get in your swarm agent? This should indicate how many actual threads lightmass is trying to use.
  • Are you sure it is only using one physical CPU? It might be using all physical cores, but not hyperthreading them.
  • Do you have sufficient RAM? The cooking process limits the number of parallel threads when you don’t have enough RAM, maybe lightmass does something similar?
  • How complex is your scene, in a simple scene lightmass might just not be able to split the work up into enough pieces. (Though it would be quite a coincident if that happens to be exactly half your core count)
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But Dual Xeon’s are you talking about dual CPU’s on one Mobo, or one physical chip?

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-the scene is very complex:

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swarm settings:
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It’s possible having less than 1 gb for thread is part of the issue. Answerhub might be a better place to post this, to get some eyes from Epic, not too many people are going to have access to 72 thread computers to test out this issue.

A temporary solution might be to disable hyper threading so at least you’ll get more a bit faster bakes (if it then uses all cores). About how many static meshes do you have in the scene? As I understand it, lightmass likes to assign 1 mesh 1 thread so if you have less than 72 static meshes it might not spread the work out enough.

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its obviously not less then 72 meshes. im trying to solve this for a few days now. other programs have problems as well. i want to know if there is support on this from epic. one processor = one processor group in windows. the program has to support multiple gropus for this to work. or im looking for someone with dual xeon rig.

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Have you solved the problem? I have 2x Xeon E2698 V4 80 logical core… and have same problem. Can you helpe me. Wher I can find swarm agent? Does UR4 suport UDK?