In Studio 2.2 I am working on a scene featuring 2 V4's, one with April Mersada Hair, the other with Kozaburo's Short Bob. No clothing items are defined. The scene light has two faint infinite lights to lighten the shadows a little bit and one dominant point light. So, all toghether, nothing special.
Yet it takes HOURS for DS to render the scene to 800 pix squared.  I did reduce the number of Raytrace bounces to 4, memory is not the issue, and both cores of my Athlon 4200+ are fully ablaze all the time. Focal depth is off.

Is this normal preformance for DS?