For some reason whenever we start up our slaves, the GPU slave instance starts twice giving us “Render61-GPU” and “Render61-gpu”. They are not listed as two separate slaves in the list. It switches between them randomly showing only one at a time. Attached is a video showing what is happening. I don’t really know how to explain this so I apologize if its hard to understand.
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There’s definitely two Slaves running.
That’s usually controlled by the launcher. It figures out what to start based on the contents of “/var/lib/Thinkbox/Deadline7/slaves” Check and see if there are two “.GPU” files in there.
Deleted the second file and everything is running smoothly. Thanks! Just out of curiosity, how would two of those files get created? This started after one of our slaves stalled so I don’t know if maybe something bugged out or what the deal was.
It could very well be that Deadline changed the casing of the name when it asked the Slave to start. In general we store these sorts of things with lower case names. This is the first time I’ve seen this so far though. It’s also possible the ‘start new slave’ command was sent twice with different casing, but that’s unlikely.
Which version of Deadline is this? We should sanitize the new slave name when it comes in. If we can figure out at which point it created that second Slave I can make an issue for the devs to fix it.
It is version 7.2.1.10.
I’ve made an internal issue for this one.