morphious opened this issue on Jan 02, 2010 · 8 posts
morphious posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 7:46 AM
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.
seachnasaigh posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 8:37 AM
After several frames have rendered, open Task Manager and see if there are several instances of the FFrender process running simultaneously.
Poser 12, in feet.
OSes: Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64
Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5
morphious posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 8:51 AM
One the Host computer, or on one of the render nodes?
seachnasaigh posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 9:46 AM
Try the host and also one of the nodes.
Poser 12, in feet.
OSes: Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64
Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5
morphious posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 9:50 AM
I looked, and no. One instance of thr FFrender and one instance of the Queue Manager.exe
Any other suggestions? Thanks.
ps1borg posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 8:04 PM
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
morphious posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 9:12 PM
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
ps1borg posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 11:17 PM
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