Contents

• Using onrush
• When Processors Are Busy
• Checking What's Running
• Kicking Renders Off Your Machine
• Creating Shortcuts -- Mac/OSX, Linux, Windows, Irix.

Using Onrush

'onrush' lets users easily monitor and control their local processor's render activity, including setting the online/offline state of the render queue on their machine.

Just run 'onrush' from a shell prompt.

In Unix, you can make a desktop shortcut to /usr/local/rush/bin/onrush,
or under Windows, make the shortcut to c:\rush\bin\onrush.exe

The little interface should pop up, and let you control the online/offline state of the daemon.

When Processors Are Busy

This example shows how the onrush GUI looks when 2 processors are busy running frames.

Checking What's Running

If processors are busy, you can click on the 'Busy' button to get a popup screen showing who is running what:

Kicking Renders Off Your Machine

Here, the use of 'getoff' disables the outside appropriation of local processors by dumping the rendering frames immediately, freeing up the machine:


The processors should free up fairly quickly, and onrush will subsequently show the processors become idle:



If you don't want to kill the rendering frames right away, choose 'offline'-- this will prevent new frames from starting while allowing the running frames to complete.

Creating shortcuts to onrush is easy on all the platforms; Mac/OSX, linux, windows, irix.

Mac / OSX In the finder, click on Go | Go to Folder. Enter /usr/local/rush/Applications. Highlight the "onrush" icon Hold down Alt-Apple keys while dragging the icon to your Desktop. To run onrush, double click on the new icon.

Linux Right click on the KDE desktop, choose Create New | Link to Application. Enter the path /usr/local/rush/bin/onrush. Hit OK. To run onrush, double click on the new icon. Your mileage may vary, due to the variety of window managers available. Example shows RedHat 7.2 / KDE.

Windows Right click on the desktop, choose New | Shortcut. Change settings as shown above. Hit OK. To run onrush, double click on the icon.

Irix In the toolbox, click on Desktop | Home Directory. Navigate to the /usr/local/rush/bin directory. Drag and drop the onrush to your desktop. To run onrush, double click on the new icon.