Deadline Plugin License Management

Deadline
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I have been looking for a way to limit the number of licenses deadline jobs can use on a per software/plugin basis.
Our studio has X number of Arnold licenses and Y number of Mental Ray licenses and we don’t want a job to use more than say 5 Arnold licenses, but want Mental Ray renders to use up to say 10 licenses.

There might be a setting somewhere to do this, just haven’t managed to spot it yet. Currently we have our artists setting a Machine Limit in our toolbox software on a per render basis. But would prefer this to be set automatically based on the available number of licenses for that renderer.

Thanks,
Kevin Macey

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Hello,

On a per application basis you can use Limits(docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … imits.html) but that won’t limit to x per job, but to x total on the farm. Unfortunately the task level limit will, I think, be too granular for your needs, but hopefully some mix of these can work for you.

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Dwight’s right. Limits were designed for that specific use case. I think it’ll run just fine.

For a good doc on this and a good chunk of the queuing logic, you can give this one a read:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … imits.html