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8 Optional: To prevent other Visual Effects and Finishing tools and
applications (such as background Wire, Wiretap
™
, or remote Visual
Effects and Finishing applications) from impacting the performance of
your local application, configure bandwidth reservation for your partition
in the /usr/discreet/sw/cfg/sw_bwmgr.cfg file. For details and examples, see
Configuring Bandwidth Reservation (page 203) and the comments inside
the /usr/discreet/sw/cfg/sw_bwmgr.cfg.sample file.
9 Restart Stone and Wire by typing:
/etc/init.d/stone+wire restart
A message appears indicating Stone and Wire has restarted.
10 Make sure the filesystem is mounted. Type:
/usr/discreet/sw/sw_df
A report appears providing information about the total, free, and used
disk space in the partition.
Any project created in your application after this point has the new standard
filesystem partition as its primary partition. Any pre-existing projects are
unaffected by this setting and remain associated to their respective partitions.
Setting up the Wire Network
This section provides instructions for setting up the Wire network and
associated components, such as Wiretap.
Wire is a component that enables the high-speed transfer of uncompressed
video, film, and audio between Autodesk workstations, over industry-standard
TCP/IP and InfiniBand networks.
Wiretap is a networking protocol that allows products that do not run Stone
and Wire to access the filesystem of a Visual Effects and Finishing product.
Perform the following sequence of procedures to configure your Wire and
Wiretap settings. You must stop all Stone and Wire daemons before editing
any of the following configuration files.
To stop Stone and Wire:
1 Open a terminal and log in as root.
2 Stop Stone and Wire services by typing:
/etc/init.d/stone+wire stop
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