Maximum "render time" to automaticaly fail a job ?

Deadline
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We send dozens of short sequences daily, they never take 5 mn to render.
Sometime a 3D scene is corrupted, then render may take much longer (a few hours !)…

Is it possible to automaticaly fail a job when its rendering time is more than (for example) 5mn ?
Fabrice

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Hello,

Did you try to set timeout to 5 minutes ?
If I understand well it is what need.

Nico

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Awesome, love that our forum folks are so helpful!

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Thanks for the answer, it seems to be exactly the option I was looking for !

  • What are the units (5000 = 5000s = 83mn) ?
  • It’s a time limit for a task. Does it mean that if I set a Task to 10 frames, it’ll wait the 10th frame to timeout ?
  • if the job is longer than timeout then it is “requeued”, but I’d like this job to be suspended or failed or priority-lowered…is it possible ?

Fabrice

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Hi Fabrice,
The job timeout settings are a per job setting, so can be found by right-clicking a job in your queue and going to the Properties:

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Mike

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Hello Fabrice,

In addition to what Mike said, I wanted to advise what that setting you were asking about was. That is the maximum on how many tasks can exist on a single job. Hope that helps.

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Thanks Mike,
It’s what I need but this is a per-job setting.
So I have to select all my jobs a set this after submitting…not easy because we submite more than 400 jobs a day…

Is there a way to set automaticaly a maximum render time (for 1 job or 1 task) as an unique rule for all the jobs ?
In preferences or option ?
So that if any job taking more than - let’s say - 10mn is failed.
Fabrice

PS : Dwight, I made a mistake, “task limit for job” doesn’t adress this problem.

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Hi Fabrice,
You can apply this setting at submission time for your jobs. Can you tell me which application and which submission route you are wishing this for? ie: 3dsMax jobs & submitting via Monitor? via SMTD?

We just need to use one of these settings as you submit your jobs:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … ut_Options

Regards,
Mike

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I use Max and SMTD.

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Ah cool. In that case, we have the functionality already in the SMTD. See attached screen-grab, so you can set this at submission time and if needed, you can set this to a certain default setting/sticky setting via our defaults/sticky settings INI files.

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You could also enable the checkbox below the timeout spinners (“Enable Auto Task Timeout”), which will depending on your repo options, allow you to auto-timeout a job as well. See here for the tech info on how that works and what the settings do: thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … b_Settings

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Thanks, I’ll try with the ini files…
Cheers
Fabrice

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In “defaults” file:

“…/deadline_repo_path/submission/3dsmax/Main/SubmitMaxToDeadline_Defaults.ini”

For 10 minutes, change this setting:

TaskTimeoutEnabled=true
TaskTimeout=600

In “sticky” file:

“…/deadline_repo_path/submission/3dsmax/Main/SubmitMaxToDeadline_StickySettings.ini”

Set:

TaskTimeoutEnabled=false
TaskTimeout=false