external shutdown of slave - log entry

[LaszloSebo]

Is it possible to add a shutdown reason log entry when we kill the slave from externally using the -shutdown command?

We have a couple of reasons for the shutdowns (on workstations, when the artist comes in in the morning, or if ram usage is close to 100% on the machine etc.), and we want to make sure these dont just show up as errors on the job, but with some meaningful log. Otherwise artists / tds spend time troubleshooting a red herring.

[rrussell]

If the slave is currently rendering a job when it is shutdown, it should create a requeue report for task it was working on indicating why the task was requeued. Can you check to see if the requeue report is actually generated?

[LaszloSebo]

I’ll confirm that it does, but we would like to add something to that, like:

“Too much ram usage, requeuing”

and

“Artist is back, requeuing”

etc

[rrussell]

Ah, okay. I’ll add that to the wish list.