I am working on a Minecraft animation and whenever I am using cycles render and whenever I render the scene to check on my lightning, it takes FOREVER to render. It takes 20 minutes just to render ONE scene. If this continues, I'll never finish this animation. I've been looking for answers online but I seem to be the only one with this problem. The weird thing is, I had an older computer that was terrible and I now have a new computer that is really fast. I have never had this problem on my old computer. Can anyone help me?
I am currently using Sheep It! to render my blend (built on v2.68c) on multiple computers, and I noticed something rather strange. According to the log on-site, the frames rendered from other people's blends were completing in 3 to 4 minutes. This was on an 4 core i5. My main rig (with an 8 core i7) was completing frames in no less than half an hour. How is this possible?  To clarify, these people's frames are very complex, often with very detailed textures. I have 2 objects in my blend. Below are the options I changed for my blend:   Aspect Ratio: 1000px x 1000px Output: PNG Clamp Indirect: 0.98 Render Sampling: 128 Min Light Bounces: 0 Max Light Bounces: 4 Cycles Render   Is there something in there that I should change to make it go faster? I can't really comprehend how it's going to quickly.  EDIT: To answer what @Duarte asked...   System Specs: i7-920, 3GB DDR3, GT 630, Windows 10 I have two circles, extended to form a sort of coin with a star on it. It is not complex at all. I have Firefox and Steam running in the background, but not actively. I've been away from the computer for 8 hours and noticed this behavior. (I am running Blender from Steam.) I made sure when I began rendering that the blend was set for CPU rendering.          And to answer what @pycoder asked, yes, I am using Cycles Render.
In which Comic Book series is Batman actually Thomas Wayne? I've heard people say that there is a series of comics where Batman is actually Thomas Wayne instead of his son, Bruce.   Where can I find this? What is the series called? If M+N and M$\cap$N are finitely generated modules, so are M and N. Show discontinuity of $\frac{xy}{x^2+y^2}$ I have an odd error that I have been unable to find anything on this. I wanted to change the user comment with the following command.  $ sudo usermod -c "New Comment" user   This will work while logged onto a server but I want to automate it across 20+ servers. Usually I am able to use a list and loop through the servers and run a command but in this case I get a error.  $ for i in `cat servlist` ; do echo $i ; ssh $i sudo usermod -c "New Comment" user ; done  serv1 Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN  Options: lists usermod options  serv2 Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN  Options: lists usermod options . . .   When I run this loop it throws back an error like I am using the command incorrectly but it will run just fine on a single server.  Looking through the ssh man pages I did try -t and -t -t flags but those did not work.  I have successfully used perl -p -i -e within a similar loop to edit files.  Does anyone know a reason I am unable to loop this? Write down the sum of sum of  sum of digits of $4444^{4444}$ Let $A = 4444^{4444}$;  Then sum of digits of $A = B$; Then sum of digits of $B = C$; Then sum of digits of $C = D$;  Find $D$.  What should be the approach here? How can I test within a document, whether or not the initial  \documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,fleqn,draft]{report}   includes the "draft" option? My naive attempt  \newif\ifmydraft \mydraftfalse \DeclareOption{draft}{\mydrafttrue}   does not work, and breaks a later \usepackage command. I really can't understand what Leonard Susskind means when he says in the video  that information is indestructible.  Is that information that is lost, through the increase of entropy really recoverable?   He himself said that entropy is hidden information. Then, although the information hidden has measurable effects, I think information lost in an irreversible process cannot be retrieved. However, Susskind's claim is quite the opposite. How does one understand the loss of information by an entropy increasing process, and its connection to the statement “information is indestructible”.  Black hole physics can be used in answers, but, as he proposes a general law of physics, I would prefer an answer not involving black holes. How to select the most recent set of dated records from a mysql table I am storing the response to various rpc calls in a mysql table with the following fields:  Table: rpc_responses  timestamp   (date) method      (varchar) id          (varchar) response    (mediumtext)  PRIMARY KEY(timestamp,method,id)   What is the best method of selecting the most recent responses for all existing combinations of method and id?   For each date there can only be one response for a given method/id. Not all call combinations are necessarily present for a given date. There are dozens of methods, thousands of ids and at least 365 different dates    Sample data:  timestamp  method  id response 2009-01-10 getThud 16 "....." 2009-01-10 getFoo  12 "....." 2009-01-10 getBar  12 "....." 2009-01-11 getFoo  12 "....." 2009-01-11 getBar  16 "....."   Desired result:  2009-01-10 getThud 16 "....." 2009-01-10 getBar 12 "....." 2009-01-11 getFoo 12 "....." 2009-01-11 getBar 16 "....."   (I don't think  is the same question - it won't give me the most recent response) iPhone App › Add voice recognition? Run a command in a shell and keep running the command when you close the session I am using Putty to connect to a remote server. What I want to know is if there is any way to write my commands and allow them to keep running after I close the session with Putty. The reason for this is that I do not want to keep the computer ON all the time. Is there any way to do this?.  Update with the solution  For my question as it is presented the best solution is use one of the commands provided such as nohup, because you do not have to install any additional software. But if you are in the same problem use screen, install it and use it. It is amazing.  I have selected the answer of Norman Ramsey as favourite because propose several solutions using commands and screen. But please check the other answers specially the one of PEZ, then you get an insight of what screen is able todo. In the category $\mathbf{Set}$ is "the product of an empty set of sets a one-element set"? I was reading  on Category Theory and it said (paraphrased to add context):     Exercise 4: Explain why in $\textbf{Set}$ (the Category of Sets), the product of an empty set of sets is a one-element set.   which I think is incorrect. The product of two empty sets (or any number) is empty because we are considering:  $$ \emptyset \times \emptyset = \{ (a,b) : a \in \emptyset, b \in \emptyset \} = \emptyset$$  where $a \in \emptyset , b \in \emptyset$ are false, so the above is the $\emptyset$ which is NOT a one element set (its a zero element set).   This should be trivial so I am assuming I am somewhere mis reading the natural language of the exercise. Someone help me catch where is it and what the answer should be? i.e. whats being asked and the answer? I'm working on a small game and i'd like to know how can i write/read a user settings file in ubuntu touch? Prove that $f$ has a fixed point . For $f:[a,b]\rightarrow [a,b]$ is a continuous . Prove that $f$ has a fixed point . Is that true if we change $[a,b]$ by $[a,b)$ or $(a,b)$. Are antiparticles just particle-shaped holes? If particles are simply regions of space where certain quantum fields have non-zero divergence, are anti-particles simply the corresponding regions of opposite divergence?    This seems like the intuitive answer, especially when considering the process of annihilation.  I have heard before that anti-particles are analogous to particles moving through time in reverse, which seems to indicate that an annihilation event is just a point of symmetry in that (arguably, single) particle's history.  This analogy breaks down, however, when it comes to gravitation, since there seems to be no evidence of a negative-mass particle.    So what then is the meaning of an anti-particle, when their symmetry is preserved across certain fields, but not other? I've been using mac for years, but prefer to do software development on windows. I'm really used to is using the folowing shortcuts on windows very much:  &lt;CTRL&gt;  + INSERT: Copy &lt;SHIFT&gt; + INSERT: Paste &lt;SHIFT&gt; + DELETE: Cut   Of late, I've taken to doing even my development work on the Mac. However, as a matter of habit, I'm missing these shortcuts very much. Actually, I find these a lot more convenient than COMMAND + (C/V/X) combo.  Is there a way to reassign these three shortcuts at least?   I've look all over the internet and in the "Keyboards" system preferences but I did not find anything.  PS: If you're wondering where I find the INSERT keys on a mac book pro, I use a wireless keyboard. Proving $2$ generates $(\mathbb{Z}/19\mathbb{Z})^*$ by only looking at a few powers PHP 5.5.13 on CentOS 6.5 with yum Finding solutions to congruence equations What is the difference between a tatkal and premium tatkal ticket in Indian Railways? When I search for my address on Google Maps it cannot be found which means I can't order takeaway etc.  Is there a way of adding my address to Google Maps or even add a street address?  I want the address to be publicly available so others can search it.