Slaves holding on to Finished Jobs

Deadline
1

Hello All,



I have a modified version of the Deadline CommandLine plugin I use to process Fusion EyeonScripts. Most of the time these jobs complete without issue, but once or twice a week a batch of jobs will stay on the farm indefinitely… even after the script has finished. We end up having to manually mark the tasks as complete.





Anyone have any idea what might be happening?





Some possible clues:

1.) Some of our Fusion Jobs end with RenderSlave crashing. It seems when this happens for regular Fusion plugins the job still completes though.



---------------------------

RenderSlave.exe - Application Error

---------------------------

The exception unknown software exception (0xc0000005) occurred in the application at location 0x62093348.





2.) Not all the output from my eyeonscripts is captured in the RenderSlave window.





Thanks,

Paul Hudson

CafeFX




2

Hi Paul,



We’ve seen this behaviour before, and we think the cause was the

eyeonScript.exe process that starts up with RenderSlave was preventing

our eyeonScript.exe process which runs the script from finishing. We

found that if we opened TaskManager and killed one of the eyeonScript

processes, the other would exit and the job would complete.



If you’re running Fusion 5.1, try using ConsoleSlave.exe instead of

RenderSlave.exe. The ConsoleSlave is Fusion’s new command line renderer,

but it can also process scripts like RenderSlave does. We’ve tested

ConsoleSlave with our Fusion5 plugin, and it works quite well (you

likely won’t see that crash error either).



Cheers,

3

Apparently some of our guys here have already tried out ConsoleSlave.exe. Here’s what they had to say:



so i tested out the console.exe

it renders faster

but i notice some things though

had frames that wouldnt render and would get plugin errors

switched back

and those frames completed

so its a iffy situation







Yeah,



I would not use Console.exe. It will error out a lot whenever you are using and AEPlugins or Third Party ones. I had to switch back and deal with the renderslave.exe error. It’s never ending!







Any other ideas? And has this issue been reported to Eyeon?





Thanks,

Paul