Hi Bobo!
I made some progress trying to figure out my issues.
First, i’m not exactly sure why, but reducing the frame per task to 12 rather than the total amount of the job helped a lot. I can now get the rendering to start.
Altough it is technically working, i noticed another strange issue, which is probably why it seemed to “freeze” in the first place, forcing me to suspend and delete jobs.
When Deadline works on a frame or completes one for a current task, it keeps showing 0% progress in the task progress bar. I guess that’s why when i submitted a 300+ frames per task job, i thought Deadline wasn’t doing anything at all. Even though it was actually the case until i started lowering the frames per task, i can start to get a clue why. Is this normal behavior?
I know for a fact that when i had a high number of frames per task the render wasn’t starting at all first by checking the logs with you but also because once a frame begins rendering, Redshift creates a “.lock” file of the current frame file. (i.e.: <render.####.exr.lock>). When i was submitting lots of frames per task it would never gets to this point. Now it does but as a frame progresses or completes, the progress bar still shows 0%.
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Redshift for Houdini plugin version 3.0.30 (Sep 26 2020 14:49:18)
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Plugin compile time HDK version: 18.0.499
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Houdini host version: 18.0.499
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Plugin dso/dll and config path: C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/18.0.499/dso
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Core data path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Local data path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Procedurals path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift\Procedurals
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Preferences file path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift\preferences.xml
2021-01-31 09:45:26: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] License path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Detected Houdini version: (18, 0, 499)
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: ['C:\\ProgramData\\Thinkbox\\Deadline10\\workers\\DESKTOP-5U1FHGC\\plugins\\6016bdafb1bd1194507526a4\\hrender_dl.py', '-f', '888', '899', '1', '-o', '$JOB/render/seq_1/seq_1.$F4.exr', '-g', '-d', '/out/Redshift_ROP_render', '-tempdir', 'C:\\ProgramData\\Thinkbox\\Deadline10\\workers\\DESKTOP-5U1FHGC\\jobsData\\6016bdafb1bd1194507526a4\\0_tempSzNZs0', '-arnoldAbortOnLicenseFail', '1', 'D:/projects/Invicare/hip/render/seq_1_render_v001.hiplc']
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Start: 888
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: End: 899
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Increment: 1
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Ignore Inputs: True
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Output: $JOB/render/seq_1/seq_1.$F4.exr
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Driver: /out/Redshift_ROP_render
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: Input File: D:/projects/Invicare/hip/render/seq_1_render_v001.hiplc
2021-01-31 09:45:28: 0: STDOUT: About to call hou.hipFile.load()
2021-01-31 09:45:32: 0: STDOUT: hou.hipFile.load() finished without an error.
2021-01-31 09:45:32: 0: STDOUT: Begin Path Mapping
2021-01-31 09:45:32: 0: STDOUT: End Path Mapping
2021-01-31 09:45:32: 0: STDOUT: ROP type: Redshift_ROP
2021-01-31 09:45:32: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 888 to 899
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Scene 'seq_1_render_v001', ROP node 'Redshift_ROP_render' render started for 12 frames. Time from 36.958333 to 37.416667
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Houdini/FX or Indie license found, no render restrictions
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Closing the RS scene
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Initializing the render session
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Textures cache size (MB): 32768
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Textures cache path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Redshift\Cache
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Devices enabled: 0:GeForce GTX 1080 Ti,
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift]
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Redshift Initialized
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Version: 3.0.30, Sep 26 2020
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Windows Platform (Windows 10 Pro)
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Release Build
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Number of CPU HW threads: 12
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] CPU speed: 3.21 GHz
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Total system memory: 23.99 GB
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] TDR delay: 8s
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Driver version: 457.30
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Current working dir: C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.0.499\bin
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Creating CUDA contexts
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] CUDA init ok
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Ordinals: { 0 }
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Initializing GPUComputing module (CUDA). Ordinal 0
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] CUDA Driver Version: 11010
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] CUDA API Version: 11000
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Device 1/1 : GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Compute capability: 6.1
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Num multiprocessors: 28
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] PCI busID: 4, deviceID: 0, domainID: 0
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Theoretical memory bandwidth: 484.440002 GB/Sec
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Measured PCIe bandwidth (pinned CPU->GPU): 5.552693 GB/s
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Measured PCIe bandwidth (pinned GPU->CPU): 6.205368 GB/s
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Measured PCIe bandwidth (paged CPU->GPU): 2.885061 GB/s
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Measured PCIe bandwidth (paged GPU->CPU): 3.044155 GB/s
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Estimated GPU->CPU latency (0): 0.043044 ms
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Estimated GPU->CPU latency (1): 0.042438 ms
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Estimated GPU->CPU latency (2): 0.044547 ms
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Estimated GPU->CPU latency (3): 0.043237 ms
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] New CUDA context created
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Available memory: 10096.2500 MB out of 11264.0000 MB
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift]
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Loading Redshift procedural extensions...
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Done!
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] RS render object initialized successfully
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] ROP node 'Redshift_ROP_render' rendering frame 888 (time: 36.958333)
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Loading RS rendering options
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Initializing the AOVs system
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] AOVs initialized sucessfully
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Loading the RS scene
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Loading the camera data
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Loading the scene OBJ mesh nodes data
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Processing the objects to be extracted list
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Building the additional objects extraction list from the instancer objects
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Disabled objects to be extracted and used as base instance objects: 0
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] =================================================================================================
2021-01-31 09:56:19: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Rendering frame 888...