Vray Spawner/Log

[Macker]

Hey guys,

Been having a problem over the past week where our render servers will render an image, then they will not render anything else as they are "busy with 0.0.0.0".

Any ideas?

[tashko.zashev]

Looks like the slave is busy with another render job, but it could be something else.
Can you log on one of the slaves when this message appears in the render log and see if there are any additional messages (error dialog), check the spawner status and CPU usage?

[Macker]

Nothing unusual in the log... .139 is my workstation.

[2016/Mar/1|16:44:51] ============================================================
[2016/Mar/1|16:44:51] Console created, V-Ray A for x64 from May 30 2015, 02:17:39
[2016/Mar/1|16:44:51] ============================================================
[2016/Mar/1|16:44:51] Compiled with Intel C++ compiler, version 14
[2016/Mar/1|16:44:51] Host is 3dsmax, version 18
[2016/Mar/1|16:44:51] V-Ray DLL version is 3.20.02
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:11] Broadcasting TM_SERVER_STARTED after start up
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:11] Received TM_START_RENDER from 10.0.0.139
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:11] 
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:11] Starting DR session from 10.0.0.139
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:11] Receiving DR scene from 10.0.0.139
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] [VRender] Constructor entered (loading from file).
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Setting default filter kernel.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   "default" preset not loaded: [loadPreset] Cannot open file "C:\Users\Render\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2016 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\vray.cfg"
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] [VRender] Constructor done.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] Loading from file.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Loading filter parameters.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Adding host "10.0.0.229":20204 from scene
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Adding host "10.0.0.236":20204 from scene
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] Loading done.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] [VRender] Constructor entered (loading from file).
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Setting default filter kernel.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   "default" preset not loaded: [loadPreset] Cannot open file "C:\Users\Render\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2016 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\vray.cfg"
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] [VRender] Constructor done.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] Loading from file.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Loading filter parameters.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] Loading done.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] [VRender] Constructor entered.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   Setting default filter kernel.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18]   "default" preset not loaded: [loadPreset] Cannot open file "C:\Users\Render\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2016 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\vray.cfg"
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] [VRender] Constructor done.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] VRenderer destructor entered.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:18] VRenderer destructor done.
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:33] Loading IES file from "O:\RL Visualisation\3ds Max\IES Library\IES 1\ies\20.ies", setDefaults is 0
[2016/Mar/1|16:45:39] Loading IES file from "\\NAS1\Presentation\RL Visualisation\3ds Max\IES Library\IES 1\ies\22.ies", setDefaults is 0
[2016/Mar/1|17:02:45] Received TM_END_RENDER from 10.0.0.139
[2016/Mar/2|15:29:02] Received TM_START_RENDER from 10.0.0.139
[2016/Mar/2|15:29:02] warning: DR request received from 10.0.0.139, but currently busy with 0.0.0.0

There appears to be a job loaded into memory (circa 2.4 Gb), but it's not rendering/utilising the CPU.

Restarting the spawners fixes the issue, but only temporarily.

[tashko.zashev]

Thank you for posting the log for this job.
The V-Ray build installed on this node is quite old (3.2 from 05/2015), is it possible that the workstation used a newer one ?
Does the issue occurs only with particular scene file? Can you run a DR test render with more simple scene and see if the issue is still there?