CentOS 6.2 monitor very slow to update

Deadline
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Hi guys,

I have a CentOS 6.2 x64 workstation with mono 2.6.7 (upgd from 2.4) and the latest Deadline installed but it’s very slow to update, it’s fine on the Windows side, is there anything I can check to see why it’s so slow?

I tried using the 2.6.7 source files for libgdi and mono and while they seemed to all install fine they didn’t actually work, I know the 2.10 version doesn’t work so I used 2.4 from EPEL which worked, although slowly. I then redid the make/config/install with the source files and ‘mono -V’ now reports back 2.6.7 but is still very slow

Thanks

Ant

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Hi Ant,

I’m guessing it’s a connectivity issue, and likely isn’t related to mono. Do you notice any latency when browsing the repository folders manually?

Which OS do you have the repository hosted on? Also, which protocol (cifs, smb, etc) are you using to mount the repository share?

Thanks!

  • Ryan
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I’m agreeing with Ryan here but there may be a lot of factors.

I’ve actually had pretty good luck on CentOS 6.2 with building Mono 2.10.2 from source. OS X is a pretty mean situation though, so hold on 2.6.7 for now there.

As far as the speed, there are a number of network-level problems that could affect it.

  1. Duplex mismatch (some Extreme Networks switches are bad at auto-negotiating that)
  2. Bad cable/switch port
  3. Gremlins

Do you have any latency problems with other tasks, or is it just with Deadline so far? It’s fairly straightforward to compile Mono off to the side (in say /opt/mono) and switch between versions by editing /etc/ld.so.conf and $PATH.

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Thanks guys.

The machines are all dual boot, the Windows side works fine, the cabling is all new as is all the equipment.

The share is a attached as an NFS mount through fstab and I can browse it quickly and easily. It does seem to take forever when doing something and the green baar in the lower right is very slow to progress, launching it commandline and watching the output doesn’t give me any clues.

I think I’ll try it on a machine at work as remoting to the client is painful atm and I’m sure it worked well for me before.

ant

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I don’t know where my last reply went, pretty sure I saw it on here?

Anyway, I’m working this out to be a slave issue.

It’s very slow to start, while generating the slave list.

It performs as expected when right clicking the jobs and the tasks, they refresh quickly and I can get reports back from them quickly

When I refresh the slaves it takes forever!

I’m remoting in atm so when the next job finishes I’m going to delete all the slaves and see if restarting them to re-add them will solve this problem.

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That didn’t work, disabled IPv6 too

When starting from command line I get the following

Could not find platform independant libraries <prefix> Could not find platform dependant libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] UpdateAll (uimanager) !!

mono -v is on 2.10

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Very strange…

Have you considered running Pulse? It might not explain why it’s so slow, but it could help.
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-5-pulse/

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks Ryan,

I think I’m going to try and reinstall the repo and move it to the same network location. I ran chmod -R 777 on the folder, that shouldn’t cause any problems should it?

I’ll also fire up pulse on the linux server and see if that helps.

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Nope, that shouldn’t cause any problems.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks Ryan, again I’m sure I replied to this post too!

I reinstalled the repo and that made it faster but the display is still a little flaky, I’m hoping someone else will sort this out, I’d be interested to try the option of creating rpm’s as posted by another user but I’m not sure when I will see this client again

Thanks again

ant

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Hey Ant,

I don’t remember the time zone you happen to be in, but could we set up a remote session at some point with this client so I can take a look personally and give some recommendations?

Best way to contact me to set this up to shoot me an e-mail at one of the following:
edwinamsler@thinkboxsoftware.com
support@thinkboxsoftware.com

I’ve had pretty good experience running Deadline on recent Mono editions on Linux (can’t say the same for OS X) because most distros ship with GTK installed.