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Problem:
On a few occasions, I have had overnight distributed render buckets hang on one of the slave machines which holds up the rendered sequence. Simply restarting the VRay Spawner releases whatever the problem is and it continues. This has happened at night a few times when there is no one available to restart it so it ends up hanging on a few bad buckets for 12 hours and holds up any progress.
Suggestion:
I was thinking if there was a bucket timeout it could detect if a single bucket has been working longer than X-minutes then cancel it and to try it with the next available bucket.
There probably is a better way to deal with this, but the bug is impossible to re-create intentionally and a time out seems like a simple solution. Each time this happens I lose about 12 hours of rendering.
On a few occasions, I have had overnight distributed render buckets hang on one of the slave machines which holds up the rendered sequence. Simply restarting the VRay Spawner releases whatever the problem is and it continues. This has happened at night a few times when there is no one available to restart it so it ends up hanging on a few bad buckets for 12 hours and holds up any progress.
Suggestion:
I was thinking if there was a bucket timeout it could detect if a single bucket has been working longer than X-minutes then cancel it and to try it with the next available bucket.
There probably is a better way to deal with this, but the bug is impossible to re-create intentionally and a time out seems like a simple solution. Each time this happens I lose about 12 hours of rendering.
