I sent off a heavy VRay Scene that used up all of the memory on every system and had about half of the systems crash. The problem was that it crashed so hard that it took out Deadline Launcher Service along with it. It would be nice if there was a way to ensure the launcher service kept running even after the slave and slave’s process exited. The alternative is to go through all of the machines t hat crashed out and manually restart them or log into every machine and restart the service. I don’t really want to have a deadline launcher watcher process since that’s just one more thing to manage.
Hello Gavin,
I think our devs would love to see any info you can share about this as I don’t think we’ve ever seen something take out the launcher along with the slave processes. Can you email that info to support?
Do you think having the service set to restart on a crash would work? That should be easy enough to do. We can add that as an internal dev issue.
If it’s possible for a service to restart on crash that would completely solve the problem. I’m not sure how that would work though, I didn’t know services could bootstrap themselves back into existence outside of the windows startup process.
Here it be:
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FYI, the fix is now merged into 8.0. Installer just makes the service properly.