Mac render farm crashes once a day.

Deadline
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I work in a studio with macs and PCs running separate render farms. Recently we upgraded to deadline 5 on all our machines and since then the macs seem to hang about once a day. The error I get is at the bottom. The slaves immediately pick up and start working again if i quit the slave client and then re launch it. I was hoping someone has seen this before or found a workaround or a setting that’s causing it. It is almost like a cache is getting full or something.

Thanks,
Cameron

Error Message

An error occurred in StartJob(): ApplicationName=’/usr/bin/id’, CommandLine=’-u’, CurrentDirectory=’’

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Slave Log

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: A2_SHOT_13_06_v9.nk (999_051_004_6ab4dbaf)
0: INFO: StartJob: initializing script plugin Nuke
0: INFO: About: Nuke Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: Scrubbing the LD and DYLD LIBRARY paths
0: INFO: Prepping OFX cache

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Error Type

RenderPluginException

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Error Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.StartJob (Deadline.Jobs.Job job) [0x00000] in :0
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.StartJob (Deadline.Jobs.Job job) [0x00000] in :0
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask (Deadline.IO.TaskLogWriter tlw) [0x00000] in :0

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Hi Cameron,

This has become a known issue in Deadline 5.0, and likely existed before that. We have targeted this issue for 5.1, and we believe we have addressed it in the beta 2 release. This is from the beta 2 release notes:

We consider beta 2 to be stable for production, so if possible, we would recommend upgrading to the 5.1 beta. Instructions for applying for the beta can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5919

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Cheers,

  • Ryan