- Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:05 pm
#336360
Hi guys,
I've been fighting quite a battle trying to use the cooperative render option after having updated to the latest version.
The behaviour is pretty unstable at least in that particular part of network rendering. Most of the jobs I have sent from
3Ds Max Design 2011 (with the latest plug-in) have failed for numerous and pretty random reasons and have caused me
a lot of trouble and grief at work.
Although I have been with maxwell from early alpha stages and I would consider myself as relatively experienced I don't
want to exclude the possibility of having made mistakes. For example yesterday I have sent 13 jobs in a queue using a
render farm of 9 PC's (Windows7 with identical specs). The first job seems to have finished ok, so I assume there is no
license issue as they all started off well. Then, when moving onto the next job the trouble started and numerous nodes
dropped out randomly, resulting the jobs to fail (no option of recovery as there were no temp mxi's to merge manually).
In some cases I could stop, remove and add the node back onto the job, but that hasn't always worked.
We currently have 9 licenses carefully installed where we need nodes or full standard versions which has always worked
just fine. Our IT group assured me that all nodes have full network access and that our network is running at reasonable
speeds for using this sort of service. Again, all drives are mapped so there's no need to send dependencies, I guess.
All the jobs were sent using the same settings: cooperative mode, low CPU priority, no dependencies, small resolution and
low SL. In the next step I tried both options: use any node, and use slected nodes only with the same result, failures.
I have copied a few lines form the manager/node logs as follows:
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Error binding render node to port: 45457
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Another instance of Maxwell could be running
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Tcp server can not listen port: 45460
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Listening in : \\.\pipe\maxwell_network_connection
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Searching manager...
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Broadcasting using port: 45456
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Maxwell node 2.5.0.0 successfully initialized.
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Temp folder created in: C:\Users\VISUAL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\mxnetwork\rendernode\
...and
[18/January/2011 11:29:10] Rendering process has failed in node: JW222: 192.168.1.204
[18/January/2011 11:29:10] Render node JW222 has reached the maximum number of failures permitted and it will be closed.
Furthermore I have copied details from the Windows7 crash report following the last log entry of one crashed node:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mxnetwork.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4cf8f936
Fault Module Name: QtNetwork4.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.5.1.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49ff14ec
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000067713
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 68c0
Additional Information 2: 68c0990361c7f99bd5313f7563199610
Additional Information 3: 4106
Additional Information 4: 4106f2dee0b7e770f00458927ec5150f
Please let me know if there's anything I've done wrong or if you have a clue what's going on. As I've never had a version
this unstable I hope someone can advise and hopefully the problem will be fixed soon.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Jost
I've been fighting quite a battle trying to use the cooperative render option after having updated to the latest version.
The behaviour is pretty unstable at least in that particular part of network rendering. Most of the jobs I have sent from
3Ds Max Design 2011 (with the latest plug-in) have failed for numerous and pretty random reasons and have caused me
a lot of trouble and grief at work.
Although I have been with maxwell from early alpha stages and I would consider myself as relatively experienced I don't
want to exclude the possibility of having made mistakes. For example yesterday I have sent 13 jobs in a queue using a
render farm of 9 PC's (Windows7 with identical specs). The first job seems to have finished ok, so I assume there is no
license issue as they all started off well. Then, when moving onto the next job the trouble started and numerous nodes
dropped out randomly, resulting the jobs to fail (no option of recovery as there were no temp mxi's to merge manually).
In some cases I could stop, remove and add the node back onto the job, but that hasn't always worked.
We currently have 9 licenses carefully installed where we need nodes or full standard versions which has always worked
just fine. Our IT group assured me that all nodes have full network access and that our network is running at reasonable
speeds for using this sort of service. Again, all drives are mapped so there's no need to send dependencies, I guess.
All the jobs were sent using the same settings: cooperative mode, low CPU priority, no dependencies, small resolution and
low SL. In the next step I tried both options: use any node, and use slected nodes only with the same result, failures.
I have copied a few lines form the manager/node logs as follows:
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Error binding render node to port: 45457
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Another instance of Maxwell could be running
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Tcp server can not listen port: 45460
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Listening in : \\.\pipe\maxwell_network_connection
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Searching manager...
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Broadcasting using port: 45456
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Maxwell node 2.5.0.0 successfully initialized.
[18/January/2011 11:09:28] Temp folder created in: C:\Users\VISUAL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\mxnetwork\rendernode\
...and
[18/January/2011 11:29:10] Rendering process has failed in node: JW222: 192.168.1.204
[18/January/2011 11:29:10] Render node JW222 has reached the maximum number of failures permitted and it will be closed.
Furthermore I have copied details from the Windows7 crash report following the last log entry of one crashed node:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mxnetwork.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4cf8f936
Fault Module Name: QtNetwork4.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.5.1.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49ff14ec
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000067713
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 68c0
Additional Information 2: 68c0990361c7f99bd5313f7563199610
Additional Information 3: 4106
Additional Information 4: 4106f2dee0b7e770f00458927ec5150f
Please let me know if there's anything I've done wrong or if you have a clue what's going on. As I've never had a version
this unstable I hope someone can advise and hopefully the problem will be fixed soon.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Jost
3dsMax Design 2011, Maya 2011, Maxwell Render 2.5.1, Dell Dual Quad Xeon 2.66 GHz, 8 GB RAM, Windows7, ATI FIRE GL V7350 DUAL 1GB