[Clusterusers] Switching to new keg

Wed Jun 24 13:26:31 EDT 2015

We're out of licenses (130 concurrent tasks). I've written Wendy to see
about getting more.
    -Josiah


On 6/24/15 1:11 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
> now it has spooled onto ndrome 07 and eclass 6, but there are a bunch
> more open machines and it spools very slowly, I think something is wrong?
> On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 13:02 -0400, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
>> Ok, just tried linux || MacOSX and MacOSX || linux (with and without
>> spaces)
>>
>> the key shows up on the Service Key Expr on the the single tasks, but:
>>
>> -only the first one shows up
>> -so far, only perry's computer is rendering (with MacOSX as the tag)
>>
>> blender launchrender is still on limit tags, I wonder if the nodes
>> lost their blender rights somehow.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bassam
>>
>> On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 11:52 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>> 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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