From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: when the submitting workstation dies, so does the render
   Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:00:46 -0400
Msg# 1405
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Saker Klippsten wrote:
[posted to rush.general]

I would tend to guess your box is acting as the submit server? Meaning your machine is controlling your job. I would recommend setting up a couple submit servers that never reboot and are up all the time. You submit your job to eb rendered to these servers, so if your boxes crashes.. rebooted.. whatever you are not affected. To me this is the typical setup for a render farm....
or maybe I am miss reading the e-mail

	Yes, you're probably right, that's what he means.

	Yes, if you submit a job from a workstation, the default is that
	workstation becomes the 'job server' for that job.

	If you shut it down, that job will be frozen until the machine
	comes back up, as it is the manager for the job.

	If a user knows they're going to be shutting their machine down,
	or don't want to use their own machine as the server for their job,
	as Saker says, you can tell rush to use a different machine as
	the job server; in the submit forms there's a field:

		Submit Host:

	..set that to the hostname of some other machine, and when the job
	is submitted, that machine will become the job server for the job.
	Then it would be safe to shut the local workstation down without affecting
	the submitted job. The "Submit Host:" setting will be remembered, so that
	future jobs submitted with the same script will continue to use that
	same setting, unless changed.

	You can also specify a comma-separated list of hostnames at the Submit Host:
	prompt, and the submit script will randomly choose one of those hostnames
	as the job server, so that jobs aren't all focused at one machine.
	This is especially useful on large networks with many jobs, to ensure
	that the load of job serving is distributed across several machines.

	And yes, as Saker said, if this is a common practice, you can
	set up dedicated machine(s) for the purpose of being job servers,
	and you can modify the scripts so that they automatically use these
	machines by default whenever someone submits a job, if you want to
	enforce this for all users.


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