gsucci
2008-10-02, 04:25 AM
Well,
I sent 4 jobs to my server/monitor machine.
I then put online a few computers for renderings. 6 servers.
Everything works as expected.
Then, once one of the job is done, my servers begin to go idle, yellow, but they receive no new frame to render.
I tried every right click command on the server, (restart for selected job, etc.) but nothing happens.
One night I went into the backburner folder, and under Network/server I deleted everything.
I restarted the farm, and all servers began working.
Well, I thought I found how to work around this problem, but not a chance. Next job completed, the farm goes idle, again, and this time I must have done something slighlty differently becuase deleting the server folder did not work.
I begun to randomly reboot computers, and deleting backburner.xml files everywhere, and finally I managed to go throu my project.
But the last job was completed by one server...alone.
This is really disappointing, becuase it really defies any rational pattern, even for a software bug.
I mean, all servers have been working, nothing changed one hour to the other.
Also, the servers are clearly online, becuase the manager and monitor pick them up (yellow vs gray). It must be the manager that fails to send them the frame.
But how does a job completion blocks the servers like that? and why "reset/restart" for selected job does not work, EVER? I mean, that is precisely what that tool is supposed to do, right? assign a server to a job in the queue...right?
The crazy thing is that if I would turn off the server that was rendering, then the manager would send the job to the next one, which was idling into oblivion untill that moment...
And yes, DOH!, I did go into the manager's option and increased the maximum concurrent assignments value...
This happened with two servers working and the rest idle, 3 server working, and 1 server working, and the rest idle....Again, no pattern.
This is using MAX 2008, on Vista and XP pro systems, Backburner 2007.0.1
Someone must have had this problem, what's special about my little farm?
Thank you
regards
gio
I sent 4 jobs to my server/monitor machine.
I then put online a few computers for renderings. 6 servers.
Everything works as expected.
Then, once one of the job is done, my servers begin to go idle, yellow, but they receive no new frame to render.
I tried every right click command on the server, (restart for selected job, etc.) but nothing happens.
One night I went into the backburner folder, and under Network/server I deleted everything.
I restarted the farm, and all servers began working.
Well, I thought I found how to work around this problem, but not a chance. Next job completed, the farm goes idle, again, and this time I must have done something slighlty differently becuase deleting the server folder did not work.
I begun to randomly reboot computers, and deleting backburner.xml files everywhere, and finally I managed to go throu my project.
But the last job was completed by one server...alone.
This is really disappointing, becuase it really defies any rational pattern, even for a software bug.
I mean, all servers have been working, nothing changed one hour to the other.
Also, the servers are clearly online, becuase the manager and monitor pick them up (yellow vs gray). It must be the manager that fails to send them the frame.
But how does a job completion blocks the servers like that? and why "reset/restart" for selected job does not work, EVER? I mean, that is precisely what that tool is supposed to do, right? assign a server to a job in the queue...right?
The crazy thing is that if I would turn off the server that was rendering, then the manager would send the job to the next one, which was idling into oblivion untill that moment...
And yes, DOH!, I did go into the manager's option and increased the maximum concurrent assignments value...
This happened with two servers working and the rest idle, 3 server working, and 1 server working, and the rest idle....Again, no pattern.
This is using MAX 2008, on Vista and XP pro systems, Backburner 2007.0.1
Someone must have had this problem, what's special about my little farm?
Thank you
regards
gio