Render Farm odd behavior on nodes

[steven talbott]

Once more I am in need of some expert advice here. I previously had an older version (maybe 3-4 months old) of the render farm on 2 computers. Everything was working fine. I turned off both render farms and had updated to .250 version. Ever since then I have only been able to get one node to render at a time. If I turn one node off the other works just fine, and vice versa, but I'm unable to get both to render at the same time. As far as I know the unlicensed version still supports 2 nodes isn't that correct? Both machines have read/write access at all times to the folder since they both can alternate which one does the rendering. I'm hoping I am missing something stupid since the upgrade and this is a quick fix. Anything you guys can do to help would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

Steven Talbott

[steven talbott]

Odd followup if this helps, but I was doing one render of an animation with about 5 frames and then needed to do about a 90 frame set. The 5 frame set was only done by one PC, when I submitted the 2nd job to the farm with the 90 frames it kicked on the 2nd PC that at that point happened to be waiting idle. Is there a limit to the number of frames in an animation before it splits to multiple nodes? If so is there a way to force that? I have to wait and see til after the first job finishes here in a couple hours to see if the first computer picks up on the 90 frame job so that both are running together.... Either way I know that both are capable its just something limiting them both working on that first job together, and that's what I am wondering if I am missing something on.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Yep.  It does a bunch of frames on each computer.  I don't remember the exact number but it's something like 10 or 20 (I'm travelling now so I can't check.)  Nope-- it can't be set.

[steven talbott]

Ok thanks!