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auto adjusting machine limits?

Deprecated Deadline 6 Beta Discussion
#1

It would be great if overnight renders could increase their machine limits as the farm gets idle.

Something like a:

  • regular machine limit
  • off hours machine limit maximum

Then we could define what “off hours” mean, and when the farm gets to that time, it would start adjusting the limits between regular -> off hours maximum, based on how many idle slaves could render the particular jobs.

Might be nice to open pulse for scriptability like that btw, ‘pulse’ scripts that get triggered at particular times / intervals etc.

#2

Sounds like something that would be possible if we had support for custom scheduling logic. :slight_smile:

You could write a python script to run through DeadlineCommand.exe as a scheduled task to do this. There is a function in RepositoryUtils called SetMachineLimitMaximum that you could use.

#3

Cool yeah, might do this

#4

I know of at least one other client of yours who wishes they had this feature :slight_smile:

#5

I know him too :slight_smile:

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