Deadline 6 stalled slave

Deadline
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We still get the stalled slave reports on our linux boxes (Centos 6.x with Deadline 6.0).
The problem seems to be that somewhere during rendering (VRay standalone, Maya MR) the DeadlineSlave program seems to die (or at lease a ‘ps aux|grep deadline’ shows no deadlineslave instance running anymore), yet, Deadline Monitor doesn’t pick this up and still thinks the task is rendering, and once cleanup starts, the slave is marked as stalled (rather than started up again.), this results in renders not finishing during the night without constant baby sitting.

Just want to know whether or not this is a known problem, one that might have a simple solution or is fixed in the beta (which i will install first thing next year.)

Sven

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Hello,

That is an odd behavior, but I think the first step will be to get a hold of some slave logs from this happening and we can try to see why the slave is crashing. I do know some crashing issues were fixed in the beta, but want to make sure we know the cause of yours.