Hello,
I am trying to figure out the correct power management configurations for our 20 mac mini After Effects render farm on Deadline 7.2.
From within power management if I run “pmset sleepnow” command I can get it to sleep after a certain amount of time but I can’t seem to wake them up in a good fashion.
Currently all of the machines have the “Wake for network access” ticked on in the Energy Saver System Preferences.
As a test I send a pmset sleepnow command via remote control - the computer goes to sleep as expected.
(But even though the computer is asleep, the slave instances are still registered as idle in the Monitor.)
Submitting a job doesn’t seem to wake the slaves.
I sent a Start Machine command from the Monitor and successfully wake it from sleep.
Slave instances picks up the job and the rendering starts but after a couple of minutes computer went back to sleep mode - so it says that it’s rendering but the progress bar stalls… until I send another Start Machine command from the Monitor.
Slave instances rendering progress resumes but a couple minutes later it goes back to sleep mode. etc
What’s the recommended configurations for WOL on OSX?
Thanks!
