i have 10 computers on a render farm.  I am rendering a 512 frame animation as image files. For some reason most of the ten comuters get stuck on a frame after rendering for a long period. 4-5 hours approx. Anybody have this happen? Thanks.

After several frames have rendered, open Task Manager and see if there are several instances of the FFrender process running simultaneously.

One the Host computer, or on one of the render nodes?

Try the host and also one of the nodes.

I looked, and no. One instance of thr FFrender and one instance of the Queue Manager.exe

Any other suggestions? Thanks.

Hi

I see this behaviour from the slower Windows machines on my network. I'm looking to see whether its a network connection timeout issue but I can't always  reproduce the problem.

If your issue is reproducable , ie it happens every time you use a particular file. its worth speaking to Smith Micro about.  Meanwhile I'm going to try the Pro beta after the holidays.

regards  steve

I think my gigbit switch has gone onew way only, like a hub. now all the nodes hang up after the first round of frames. This is the only thing that makes sense. I HOPE

Hi

I've had no problems like that one, which sounds like some port blocking process that might happen with a mis-configured firewall. I'm running a mix of mac and PC with few regular  issues  touches wood

Have you tried cold starting the network in a router  > switch > clients sequence before you start the render? Sorry don't know what else to suggest without knowing more.

regards steve