[Clusterusers] Switching to new keg

Wed Jun 24 13:34:41 EDT 2015

Yup.
    -Josiah


On 6/24/15 1:27 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
> g*d*mn proprietary software! :)
> On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 13:26 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>>> Assistant Director of IT, Infrastructure Group
>>>>>>> System Administrator, School of CS
>>>>>>> Hampshire College
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