Hello. We are a 9 people Studio. Since 2 weeks We are switching to Deadline. It is looking amazing, totally new opportunities after years of using Backburner.
Our pipeline is mostly 3ds max + Corona. We are using a lot of DR in our studio. Thats why I am testing Corona DBR jobs. Everything is working fine despite one thing-
We have inhouse Renderfarm and Workstations. They are added to two Pools:
renderfarm- only machines fom Renderfarm
renderfarm_and_ws- both machines from Renderfarm and Workstations.
I am adding them to the First and Secondary Pool, so in first Priority it will be queued on the Rendefarm, and additionaly on Workstations.
In Limits/Add Workers to Deny list/Allow list we are not touching anything.
In Render/DBR settings are looking like that:
As I understand it should force Deadline that only those 4 machines can handle Master task ( 0 frame of DBR job). I would like prevent deadline from picking this Master task by Workstations.
Everything is looking ok to this stage. But After submitting it to Repository All the tasks are queued only by those 4 workstations from DBR whitelist. No Workstation is picking up other tasks.
What is strange is when I go in Monitor into the Job properties there are Machine Limits set the same way as I configured DBR whitelist- only 4 machines on allow list
Why is that? Is it some kind of a bug? Global Machine limits of the job should have all Workers in Allow list, like in the SMTD window. Only the DBR whitelist should be changed.
Additionaly, when I open again SMTD again in this 3ds max scene and go to main “Limits” tab- On the bottom console of SMTD I get
Collecting Limits…Please wait.
–Failed To Collect Limits.