Tasks are finished but Monitor reports slaves are still rendering

Hi

  • DL version is 8.0.7.3
  • Job submitted with C4D 17.053
  • Batch plugin enabeled
  • Repo is Osx

We’re rendering a simple test job that is 100 frames long. Monitor reports that quite a few of the slaves that started rendering at first is still rendering (+20 min pr frame). Average rendertime is 10 seconds. But all the frames are already written to disk. Also the ones that Monitor says are still rendering.

The slaves hanging like this usually have this at the end of their log:

2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 153% 2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 155% 2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 157% 2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 159% 2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: INFO: Task Overall Progress: 100% 2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: STDOUT: Rendering Phase: Finalize 2016-09-05 17:25:04: 0: STDOUT: Rendering successful: 0.502 sec. Success

The slaves that finish their task have this at the end of their logs:

2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 151% 2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 153% 2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 155% 2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: STDOUT: Progress: 158% 2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: INFO: Task Overall Progress: 100% 2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: STDOUT: Rendering Phase: Finalize 2016-09-05 17:27:11: 0: STDOUT: Rendering successful: 0.268 sec. 2016-09-05 17:27:12: 0: INFO: Process exit code: 0 2016-09-05 17:27:12: 0: INFO: Finished Cinema 4D Task 2016-09-05 17:27:12: 0: Done executing plugin command of type 'Render Task' 2016-09-05 17:27:14: 0: Executing plugin command of type 'End Job' 2016-09-05 17:27:14: 0: Done executing plugin command of type 'End Job' Success

The job stalls at 80% with 20 of 30 slaves “still” rendering according to monitor. Any ideas?

Cheers
Bonsak

Well, the current guess here is that there’s a problem in the PollUntilComplete() function in that plugin. The loop waits to see “SUCCESS” and I’m not seeing that in your output…

For fun, could you send along a test scene in case that’ll help. This is likely a RegEx vs version issue, but the more info I have, the better.

Hm. Tried the job again and now it doesn’t display the previous symptoms.

-b

Can you send something along from the new situation? I want to check the differences in the logs to see if the “SUCCESS” line is somehow in there now.

Sure. First thing monday.

-b

Heh! Sounds good to me. Have a good weekend sir!