hello, I upgraded to Deadline 7.1.2 a while ago and I have been noticing that machines will report themselves as stalled every once in a while and then a few minutes later they will not be stalled anymore and will continue rendering. I did not have this problem in earlier versions of deadline so I can only assume that something changed. This has not affected the performance of the machines per se, they still seem to render fine, it’s really just a slight annoyance.
Has anybody else experienced this at all or know about it?
I’ve not heard of this being an issue. If you are finding that the Slaves are performing normally, you might experiment with upping the time duration that Deadline uses to determine that a Slave has stalled. You can find this under Tools > Configure Repository Options… > Slave Settings > Wait Times (lower group). There is a setting labeled “Number of minutes before an unresponsive Slave is marked as Stalled”.
One additional thought that Mike reminded me about: You might check the Slave report on a stalled Slave to see if there is any information about why the stall is happening.