slave panel status not showing 'starting up' properly

[LaszloSebo]

Right now, while a task can have different statuses like ‘waiting to start’ , ‘starting up’, ‘rendering’, for the slave list themselves, all those states are simply shown as ‘rendering’.

Would be great if there was either an additional column that shows the task’s state, or maybe the slave’s state would be more verbose.

We regularly hit issues where the slave has been hung up for hours during its startup due to some crash, and would like to see potential problem machines in the slave list. Currently, we have to check each slave’s job manually, then cross reference the task state, its very cumbersome with hundreds of machines :\

[jgaudet]

Mmm, makes sense. I don’t know that we can make the Slave state itself more specific, as this would get fuzzy when multiple render threads are involved (ie, one Task might be ‘Starting Up’, another might be ‘Waiting to Start’, and a third could be ‘Rendering’).

In that sense, the separate column might also be a bit weird, but we’ve done comma-separated values for other Task things, should be fine here as well.