Hi all,
I just set up my old linux box to render via Deadline. It’s a single threaded quad-core with 16GB RAM. My workstation, which is also a deadline slave, has a hyperthreade hex-core and 64GB RAM.
I’m trying to figure out how best to configure Deadline to be able to send Nuke jobs to the queue with settings optimised for my workstation without making the old box explode.
As an example, I have a Nuke job that I would like to submit with 3 concurrent tasks and 4 threads per task to get the best out of the 12 cores I have in my workstation.
I guess in this example I can set the old machine’s slave properties to have a thread limit of 1 and all is well. It will render away with 4 threads at a time.
However, what if I have a more lightweight task that I would like to run on 2 threads with 6 concurrent tasks? In that case I would like the old box to have an override value of 2 concurrent tasks so it doesn’t waste half it’s cpu power.
If I set the slave’s overrride value for concurrent tasks to 2 and forget to change it next time a heavy job comes along, which I submit with 4 threads and 3 concurrent tasks, surely that old box will grind to a halt trying to run 12 threads, right?!
What is the best solution for this?
EDIT: I just sent off a test job with 3 concurrent tasks with my old render slave set to use a task limit of 1. Still, it’s picking up 3 tasks at the same time. Is this a bug or am I not doing this right?
Cheers,
frank