[Clusterusers] Switching to new keg

Wed Jun 24 14:16:28 EDT 2015

I seem to remember that's it's actually a single pipe character, like
linux|MacOSX, however just "blender" will get you what you want.
Our concurrent-task limit has been bumped to 250. They are very
responsive :)
    -Josiah


On 6/24/15 1:02 PM, 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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