Render farm Temp Files

[Brian R. Poppenwimer]

     Is the NXT Render farm supposed to clean up after itself on farm nodes?  I have a bunch of xp machines that we are using for the render farm, they had 50g of disk space available on them, after running a render over the weekend, they have none.  In fact my one workstation just blue screened because of no disk space when I tried to do something on it to clear up space.  Now I am waiting for it to check itself and restart.

    I noticed on my 64-bit windows 7 machines, who were also part of the farm, they had 9g of disk space taken up by the weekend render.  Is there any procedure to take care of this?  Should we be doing some kind of procedure to all the machines?  Any Advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

---Brian R. Poppenwimer, CNA, CNE, MCP

---IT Director

---Nelson & Pope/Nelson, Pope & Voorhis/Hawkins, Webb & Jaeger

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

No-- they should be cleaning themselves up.  I'll check here later today to make sure the mechanism is working correctly.  The temp files are located in your temp folders, they'll be in sub-folders which start with nXt-.  These are the ones that should be auto-deleted.  They can be safely deleted once the rendering has stopped.

 

I think on XP the temp folder is C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp by default-- don't quite remember.  On Vista and Win7 it should be C:\User\user\AppData|Local\Temp.  

 

Let me know what you find there.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I did find a problem.  Working on a fix right now.

[Brian R. Poppenwimer]

Ok, great! Thanks for the help.