DR suddenly stopped working

the other two people’s machines work in the office, but mine suddenly stopped working.

I can run vray spawner just fine. Just when rendering the hosts fail.

I thought it was my file so I created a new scene with just a few boxes, applied a vray material and gave it some reflections so it would take long enough to even need to distribute.

Here’s the part of the log:

[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]           Irradiance sample size is 84 bytes
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]           Photon size is 56 bytes.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]         Broadcasting NOTIFY_PRE_RENDERFRAME.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]       beginFrame() done.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]       Broadcasting NOTIFY_BEGIN_RENDERING_ACTUAL_FRAME.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]     Setting up DoneCallback.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]     Rendering frame region (0,0)-(3000,3000).
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]       Lightmap sample size is 72 bytes.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]       Rendering image.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:21]       Setting up 4 thread(s)
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:26]         warning: Render host 169.254.210.10 failed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:31]         warning: Render host 169.254.124.20 failed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:36]         warning: Render host 169.254.67.11 failed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:41]         warning: Render host 169.254.67.12 failed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:46]         warning: Render host 169.254.67.13 failed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:51]         warning: Render host 169.254.67.14 failed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]       Threads completed
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]     Calling endFrame().
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]       Entering endFrame().
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]         Broadcasting NOTIFY_POST_RENDERFRAME.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]         Applying render effects.
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]         Number of raycasts: 3694001
[2005/Dec/7|08:34:53]         Waiting for DR to finish

That doesn’t seem to tell me Anything, but it might to one of you experts out there.

Everything seems to be set up just fine. I recently installed the egzMaterials. That was the only thing I could think of. I removed the folder in the scripts, but the messages above are after removing that.

Any ideas?

restarting

I happened to NOT try restarting the servers. I did that and I can render again.

That really sucks though. If that happens all the time, i don’t wan to thave to go to each server individually and have to restart the servers.

I thought I saw somewhere that someone had a way of restarting all the vray spawners at once remotely? Cause that would be super.

AJ-
If you cancel a render before DR finishes - you probabaly have to restart the spawners.

I have discovered that you can just “end the proccess” of the instance of max running on those machines (also clears the ram). The spawner will then re-open the dummy scene.

That’s good to know, but it’s still a pain to go through 16 computers and restart all the servers.

Of course, we only use up to 10 at a time, but there are three of us, so we do end up using all of them, and we noticed that none of them worked today, and none yesterday.

Sometimes it’s because you cancel DR, but sometimes that works just fine. I haven’t figured out exactly what scenario makes the servers quit responding yet.

SO, IS there a way to quit all of those servers remotely? There has got to be a utility that will just force quit a program on all computers you name within a network or something.
I thought someone mentioned such a utility somewhere in this forum.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10960&highlight=remote

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