Setting Timelimit for Jobs

Deadline
1

I got a couple TD’s sending hjobs that seem to take 14 hours to render. I want to cancel them and consider them failed after 3 hours. Can i set this up globally in deadline 5_2?

Thanks
Fred

2

Hi Fred,

You can’t set this up globally, but you could edit the submission script they use to hardcode a timeout. Is that an option?

Cheers,

  • Ryan
3

We use the submission scripts that Grant does with RPManager. I might be able to hack it in there. Maybe you could give the the line of cade that would timelimit it?

4

You can search the SubmitMaxToDeadline_Functions.ms script for where TaskTimeoutSeconds is being set. This script should be in the supportfiles folder that is included with the RPM scripts for Deadline.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
5

I found this
TaskTimeoutEnabled = false,
TaskTimeout = 0,
AutoTaskTimeout = false,

And set it to this
TaskTimeoutEnabled = true,
TaskTimeout = 10800,
AutoTaskTimeout = false,

Does that seem right?

6

Those are the default settings. If you always want to override what they enter, then you should comment out this code:

				if SMTDSettings.TaskTimeoutEnabled then
					format "TaskTimeoutSeconds=%\n" 		SMTDSettings.TaskTimeout 		to:submitInfoFile
				else
					format "TaskTimeoutSeconds=0\n" 									to:submitInfoFile

Then add a new line to hardcode the value. The result should look something like this:

				--if SMTDSettings.TaskTimeoutEnabled then
				--	format "TaskTimeoutSeconds=%\n" 		SMTDSettings.TaskTimeout 		to:submitInfoFile
				--else
				--	format "TaskTimeoutSeconds=0\n" 									to:submitInfoFile
				format "TaskTimeoutSeconds=10800\n" 									to:submitInfoFile

Cheers,

  • Ryan
7

Thanks Ryan!

8

While we’re chatting, can you point me to the most basics of Draft. I’d like to start playing with it and I know almost nothing…
Fred

9

Best place for that is the Draft beta forums. If you don’t already have access, shoot an email to sales@thinkboxsoftware.com and they’ll be able to set you up!

Cheers,

  • Ryan