We are using 6 render nodes at the moment. 3 of them are 6/12 core i7 with 32GB Ram and 3 of them are 4/8 core with 16GB ram. Every so often, a couple of the 6/12 cores don’t receive the DR job and just sit there doing nothing. Restarting spawner (running as a service on all machines) makes no diffe…

Do you use the option to restart the slaves after a DR render? Does this happen when you start a DR render immediately (or shortly) after another one? Best regards, Vlado

[image] Problem Picking Subsets from Foam Do you use the option to restart the slaves after a DR render? Does this happen when you start a DR render immediately (or shortly) after another one? Best regards, Vlado I do have that option enabled. It does seem to be when I start a render shortly…

Ok then. It might be possible that the servers have not finished restarting if you start another DR very soon after the previous one. Best regards, Vlado

I will monitor it. Why can’t spawner handle things like this better? It has always been a bit ‘unsteady’ when renders are cancelled or restarted.

The render slaves need to close the preview job before any new render to be started. The delay required between two renders depends on the scene complexity, slave hardware, network, e.t.c. So it is important to let all of the slaves to finish/cancel the job before sending another one.

OK, but why can’t some sort of logic be built in where if the particular server isn’t quite ready, it will pick up when it is ready? It seems a bit ‘old school’ to try and second guess enough of a cooling off period.

There is such logic, actually. Why it’s not kicking in in your case, I’m not entirely sure. When a server starts up and is ready, it will broadcast a UDP message, which the render client can recognize and automatically add the node. This usually works, but if you have firewalls or other software th…

just curiosity, why would one want to restart the server after each render?? doesn’t that make renders always to take longer to start?? What is the benefit of that option? Thanks

[image] Set PostTranslatePython code by MEL/Python just curiosity, why would one want to restart the server after each render?? doesn’t that make renders always to take longer to start?? What is the benefit of that option? It does make the servers start a bit slower, but sometimes things rema…

I’m just looking again at our 3 machines that seem to have this random behaviour with distributed rendering. I notice that the active network is described as an unidentified public network. I’m pretty sure this should be set to ‘Work’ or a ‘Domain Network’ (we are on a domain), but I can’t seem to …

DR node sporadic behaviour

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I do have that option enabled. It does seem to be when I start a render shortly after one has finished (or been cancelled) though I can’t be 100% sure that this is the reason every time.

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DR node sporadic behaviour

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