[Clusterusers] Switching to new keg

Wm. Josiah Erikson wjerikson at hampshire.edu
Wed Jun 24 11:52:40 EDT 2015


Duh. I totally knew that. I think I even used to tell people that.
Thanks Tom!
    -Josiah


On 6/24/15 11:32 AM, Thomas Helmuth wrote:
> I looked up the service key syntax:
> https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/18/tractor/scripting.html#srvkeys
>
> It turns out, comma means to AND the service keys together. So,
> "linux,MacOSX" will only run on a node that is both linux and MaxOSX,
> which is obviously bad. You have to use "linux||MacOSX" to get linux
> OR MaxOSX.
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson
> <wjerikson at hampshire.edu <mailto:wjerikson at hampshire.edu>> wrote:
>
>     It looks like any service keys specified when spooling replace
>     "slow". The job spooled right now shows up as having
>     "linux,MacOSX" on each task.
>         -Josiah
>
>
>
>     On 6/24/15 3:38 AM, Chris Perry wrote:
>>
>>      
>>
>>     How are you spooling, Bassam?
>>
>>     If the "old way" (via website), then I think "slow" might be
>>     hardcoded into each remoteCmd declaration. Check not just the job
>>     but the various subtasks for the tags, they may show up there. I
>>     kind of remember noticing that when Owen and I were rewriting
>>     things this spring; check and see what you find. We can update
>>     this all when I get back (at the latest).
>>
>>     - chris
>>
>>      
>>
>>      
>>
>>     On 2015-06-23 23:17, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
>>
>>>     Tried it again, still waiting.
>>>     Interestingly enough, I think the Tags are not getting picked up; I
>>>     checked use custom tags and kept the case as indicated, and there are
>>>     not Tags showing up in tractor - maybe it's the keg update or maybe I'm
>>>     doing it wrong (tm)
>>>     On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 16:37 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>>>     Make sure not to capitalize "Linux", too - I think it is case
>>>>     sensitive. -Josiah On 6/23/15 4:36 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>>>>     It's because I lied to you. It should be "linux,MacOSX" for
>>>>>     the service tags. -Josiah On 6/23/15 3:42 PM, Bassam Kurdali
>>>>>     wrote:
>>>>>>     Hi, just spooled another shot, it's waiting to continue.. I
>>>>>>     know at least the mac nodes should be open. On Mon,
>>>>>>     2015-06-22 at 23:41 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>>>>>>     There was something about a file descriptor limit in tractor
>>>>>>>     -engine, so I restarted tractor-engine, and it appears to
>>>>>>>     have cleared up. It was probably something having to do with
>>>>>>>     held open file handles with new/old NFS file handles. You're
>>>>>>>     also spooling all your jobs with the default tag of "slow",
>>>>>>>     which isn't necessarily bad, but I think you could also do
>>>>>>>     "linux,OSX" or something and get all the nodes at once. I
>>>>>>>     think that's the syntax, but I could be remembering wrong. I
>>>>>>>     also have to email Wendy about the fact that our license
>>>>>>>     expires in 10 days, and when I go to get a new one, it still
>>>>>>>     does.... -Josiah On 6/22/15 9:30 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
>>>>>>>>     Hmm, all of sudden all my tasks are blocked even though
>>>>>>>>     there are nodes available - down to the last 4 frames
>>>>>>>>     (which are retried errors) and a collate. Tim spooled some
>>>>>>>>     tasks but the macs are open, any ideas? On Mon, 2015-06-22
>>>>>>>>     at 20:16 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>     Nice. Saw some pretty impressive bandwidth usage there for
>>>>>>>>>     a second:
>>>>>>>>>     http://artemis.hampshire.edu/mrtg/172.20.160.204_10110.html(this
>>>>>>>>>     is actually keg1's network connection - gotta correct that
>>>>>>>>>     on the map, or just swap over to the old connection)
>>>>>>>>>     -Josiah On 6/22/15 7:29 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>     I figured and I spooled and it seemed to be working...
>>>>>>>>>>     hopefully jordan doesn't restart his eternal render for a
>>>>>>>>>>     few hours ;) On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 18:26 -0400, Wm.
>>>>>>>>>>     Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>     It's done! -Josiah On 6/22/15 5:49 PM, Bassam Kurdali
>>>>>>>>>>>     wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>     dats punk! is it done? On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 20:49
>>>>>>>>>>>>     +0200, Chris Perry wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>     I can't wait. Thanks, Josiah! - chris
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     wjerikson at hampshire.edu
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     <mailto:wjerikson at hampshire.edu>> wrote: Keg will be
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     going down shortly, and coming back up as a harder,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     faster, better, stronger version shortly as well, I
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     hope :) -Josiah
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     On 6/11/15 9:53 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote: Hi
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     all, I'm pretty sure there is 100% overlap between
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     people who care about fly and people who care about
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     keg at this point (though there are some people who
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     care about fly and not so much keg, like Lee and Tom
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     - sorry), so I'm sending this to this list. I have a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     new 32TB 14+2 RAID6 with 24GB of RAM superfast (way
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     faster than gigabit) keg all ready to go! I would
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     like to bring it up on Monday, June 22nd. It would
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     be ideal if rendering was NOT happening at that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     time, to make my rsyncing life easier :) Any
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     objections? -Josiah
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