So hey guys this is my first post and as former Backburner user i think i’m about to embarrass myself with this question, but can anyone of you tell me how i can quickly assign a job (or multiple jobs) to a couple of selected slaves?
I didn’t find anything in the Deadline Help about it.
- Right Click on a job or select multiple jobs and right click.
- Job Properties
- Machine Limit
- “WhiteList”
- Select your machines and hit the right arrow.
Alternately you can setup a “group” with certain slaves and change the group. Alternately Alternately you can setup some slaves to be in a “pool” that’s higher priority than the other pools on a few slaves and set the pool for those jobs to that pool.
Pools are nice since they will use certain machines ahead of other jobs but still use everything when the rest of your slave is free. For instance if you have a “PreViz” pool you can set that to the #1 priority pool on a few machines and then when you submit a previz job to the preViz pool those few machines will start immediately on it if the rest of the farm is busy and once the rest of the farm is done it can start working on the pre-viz job to maximize your render resources.
Great! thanks im_thatoneguy that’s what i was looking for, and thanks for the tip with the pools, for now i only have set up some groups.