Hi All,
we’ve installed and start to use/test the Deadline just a few days ago in our studio. It seems working fine but there is one thing we would like to ask from more experienced users. (We use still just the free licence version, so we can only render with 2 nodes/machines. We use Maya 2015, and Arnold to render)
In our project the main reason to use Deadline is to be able to shorten the rendertime, so we would like all the nodes work on one sequence (for now just this two). We could make work both rendernode/machine but just one at the same time. We couldn’t make them work on the same sequence in the same time. We created separate tasks (eg. task 1 = frame 0-10, task 2 = frame 11-20, etc).
Why the second node doesn’t start to work on the next task?
Could anybody please help us out why we can not make both machine work in the same time?
Hello Alpha,
I think turning on slave verbose logging in the Application Logging section of the repository options, then sending a log over after this behavior happens would be helpful so we can see if the machine is just not seeing jobs it can do, or if other issues are involved. Thanks.
Thanks for your reply.
Lasts night, we started to render a scene, which is quiet heavy, and this time it did split the tasks between the two nodes. An other setting we set is, we set the tasks to one frame/task instead of 10#/task.
So it looks it works. Now we would like to know what makes the difference? If 1#/task splits the job, 10#/task why not?
I switched on the logging as you said.
Thank you.
Some logs, or screen shots of your job settings and slave settings would help tremendously.