"Broken pipe" message from rpiece on multi-core Linux system

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Hi Greg,

Stepping through this:

  • There’s only one instance of rad and no more than eight instances of rpict running.
  • There is no other error message to indicate that an rpict process died. If one is dying, it is either not showing an error message, or the message is not going to stderr.
  • The image is 512x512, so it shouldn’t be anywhere close to the file size limit. The unf file (what does get produced) is 4064 kb, and the hdr file produced successfully from the single thread version ends up being 625 kb.
  • I can use the ambient file for subsequent regular rpict runs, so it doesn’t seem to be corrupt.

Also looking back at Randolph’s thread, this model also contains lights, not mkillum necessarily, but ies2rad. I’m not sure if that’s a factor, but maybe I can try out some other models.

Nathaniel