MacPro OSX slaves not picking up new jobs

Deadline
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Deadline 6.1
Maya 2015 w VRay 3.1
OSX Yosemite

Small problem. We have a 3 new MacPros which get put onto the renderfarm when not being used. They work fine (about 5-10% slower than an equivalent Windows box).
Only problem is that Deadline will not pick up a new job if they have being idle for a while.
If I use remote control to stop then start the Deadline Slave it picks up the job immediately and all is well.

Any ideas?
Cheers
Grant Fraser

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The wonders of App Nap!

Check this out, should help:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … rkstations

The global disable should work in all versions of OS X after 10.9, so try that first. Specifically:

 defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES
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Thanks for that. We are using an App called Caffeine which allows us to turn AppNap and screen savers etc off on the fly.
lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

Have a major rendering happening at that moment and I notice that the Macs are picking up jobs ok just very slowly. They can take from 30 sec to 10 minutes to start a job according to Deadline Monitor.

I’ll try turning off App Nap via the CLI as well.

Thanks again