Completed tasks not producing frames

hi everyone,

Has anyone come across a situation where an arnold render on deadline with single frame tasks will result in a certain subset of tasks finishing just way too quickly and not producing a frame?

Average proper render time for the 80/100 frames that produce a frame is only about a minute, but some tasks complete in about 20 seconds without any error (or really any progress logging), say they have completed and then get marked complete

Dead giveaway is the “output file size” column is blank in the monitor

i cannot seem to find a correlation between machines and tasks that don’t produce frames. a worker will successfully produce a frame and then on the next task it will not produce a frame, but the tasks are still marked complete…

sometimes the success rate mentioned above isn’t even that high, for example see this:

i have tried mayabatch and mayacmd, the result is the same.

Hello @daveoy

Can you share an example job report here: Here’s how you get to the Job Reports: Controlling Jobs — Deadline 10.2.1.0 documentation

Also share the Worker logs around that time from the machine which was running the Worker at the render time. The Worker logs live in application logs, The application logs sit here: Logs — Deadline 10.2.1.0 documentation