Distributed rendering host not responding

[stevesideas]

Hi Guys,

I have a problem with my very small render farm...of 2 computers. I try a DR scene and the message, "render host (192.168.0.10) is not responding".

This doesnt happen all the time, just occasionally. I have to remote desktop to the server, close the vray dr spawner and then restart it again.

Is there any way to resolve this, or at least reset the vr spawner on the server so that I dont have to manually restart it. If I had more machines, this would be a nightmare..

Cheers

Steve

[Tommy L]

I have always had this problem (for about 6 months) and now its getting worse. A fix would be much appreciated. Problem seems to be that the nodes dont purge the max file and if its still there, they try and use the cached file.

[giraffe]

Hi
I had similar problem too and replied to similar thread yesterday. Maybe it can help you:

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ad.php?t=43188

[stevesideas]

Thanks for the link but my memory is fine. I will test it with another prog tonight, but the bios doesnt show any errors.

Anyone else have any ideas ?

[jujubee]

I posted some help to the other thread for you to look at. I hope this helps.

[stevesideas]

I am not using saved lightcache or irr map calculations. This is only a still image were talking about here where the calcs are done on the fly using dr. Obviously lightcache is calculated on the main computer.

[Sascha Selent]

I solved my problems with DR Spawner with a really crazy workaround

Maybe this is interesting for all of you?

I solved my problems with DR Spawner with a really crazy workaround

Sascha

[Pixelsonic]

I´m also having problems of hosts not responding.

Strangely I´ve been rendering a scene with a slave without problems with one scene and then after loading a different scene (much bigger though), the slave is not responding.

Can this be due to the size of the newly loaded scene ? It is has a size of about 300 mb and takes some time until transmitted to the slave (over a 100mbit network).

Or maybe the memory of the slave (just 2 GB) ?