[Clusterusers] Switching to new keg

Thomas Helmuth thelmuth at cs.umass.edu
Wed Jun 24 13:32:30 EDT 2015


I thought I've had more than 150 runs going at once in the past. Did
something change?

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <wjerikson at hampshire.edu
> wrote:

>  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> 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>
> 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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