Hi,
I’ve had this problem for a few versions of Deadline. For some reason, some machines automatically spawn new instances of the slave with names created from its own machine name and that of others in the render group. Even when I delete these new instances, they get respawned. Can you tell me how they’re being created and what I can do to stop it?
I’ve attached a screen grab of our monitor. As you can see, 16-BANSHEE has another 10 instances based on the render farm names, e.g. 16-BANSHEE-901-RDR
Cheers,
Jon Rennie
Bait Studio
Hello Jon,
Sorry for not getting to this sooner. Can I ask if 016-Banshee has been used to start up other machines often? The reason I ask is there is a bug in 6.0 and 6.1 that if a Mac doesn’t know the IP of a machine, a remote command will be redirected to the local machine. Therefore, if you had tried to start up the RDR machines, and it couldn’t find them, it may have created new slaves instances with the suffix of that machine locally. Can you verify if the 16 banshee machine has all of those slave instances? If this bug s the problem, our best advice would be to get in touch with our beta team(beta@thinkboxsoftware.com) and they can get you onto the 6.2 beta, where this is fixed. Thanks.
Thanks Dwight. No, 016-BANSHEE isn’t showing the slaves instance so it must be the problem you describe. I’m already on the beta programme but had only just upgraded everything to 6.1! I’ll take a look at 6.2 and decide whether it’s okay to upgrade at this stage. Cheers.
Hi,
Just following up on this. I have 6.2 installed on the farm (6.2.0.32) but we’re still getting the extra slaves being spontaneously created. I keep deleting them and they just return. There are even some that are named after three machines now, which is a new one! I’ve attached another screenshot highlighting the extra slaves - we’ve had to disable them to stop them using a license but it doesn’t seem to have a consistent cause.
Cheers,
Jon
In order to resolve this, a couple of things would be needed. First, turn off the ‘restart stalled slaves’ option for all your slaves that have this issue. Next, you’ll need to delete the slave files from the slave itself. I’m not sure what S your slaves run, but on Windows the files you need to delete are found at “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline6” and would be found in a correlating location on Linux and Mac OS. Lastly, delete the slave’s entry in the monitor to fully eradicate the extra slave instances from showing up. I hope that helps.
Great, thanks Dwight. I’ll give that a go.
Cheers,
Jon
