Hi all… I’m not sure if this is deliberate or known about… I’ve just done a complete reinstall of all my farm machines (Windows 7, Deadline 6 RC2) and I was getting lots of stalled slaves. I found the reason was that the machines were going to sleep. By changing the setting in the control panel so that they don’t go to sleep my machines have been up and running fine.
Shouldn’t this scenario be handled by deadline? Surely it should disable sleep while rendering.
I’m not sure if this is something that should be handled by Deadline (we never have before). I think in general it’s good practice to not have your render nodes go to sleep, regardless of whether not the machine is rendering. 
If you’re concerned about energy use, you could always set up Power Management to shutdown your nodes when they’re idle, and start them back up when they’re needed for a job.
Cheers,
Hi Ryan… I do use the power management… I guess I’m just a little surprised that a machine can still fall asleep while rendering. When I reinstalled windows on all my slaves it defaulted to sleep when inactive for 30 minutes. I would have thought the while rendering, the machine is not considered inactive. I have disabled sleep and all is good. It might be worth noting to turn off sleep for slaves in the documentation (if you haven’t already)
Thank you