Thanks for all the solutions - it's been like this for years, so I wouldn't expect it to change. It probably wasn't as big a problem before, but with task nodes and server access becoming so dang slow I'd like to be able to do more, quicker, than it currently can. The box itself has more power than it use to, so making it slower doesn't make much sense. - another note, using a while loop -- like "while x<20 -- x=x+1 -- end while" in the render thread will result in an execution timeout, but executing "x=x+1" 20 times in succession doesn't, so again we'll need to run some profiling to see how to improve these situations.
