From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [Q+A] Is there a way for sysadmins to quickly stop all rush rendering?
   Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:22:49 -0400
Msg# 1527
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> Is there a way to stop all rush rendering?
>
> Sometimes our file server gets full, and we want to be able
> to stop everything before it gets too full..

    Yes, if you want to stop all renders on the network..


STOP EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY
---------------------------

    If you want everything to stop RIGHT NOW, killing renders
    that are in progress (and re-queing them) so that NOTHING
    is left running, your can use:

    rush -getoff +any -t 3

    This is the same as 'offline', just the added function of
    killing and re-queuing anything that is currently running
    so that it will be re-started later.

    More info:
    http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/rush-command-line-options.html#-getoff

STOP ONLY NEW RENDERS FROM STARTING
-----------------------------------

    If you don't want to KILL renders that are running, but want
    to 'gracefully' just prevent new frames from starting, you
    can just use:

    rush -offline +any -t 3

    As currently rendering frames finish rendering, no new frames
    will start, easing everything down to a graceful stop.

    More info:
    http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/rush-command-line-options.html#-offline

TURNING EVERYTHING BACK ON
--------------------------

    After one of the above global "getoff" or "offline" operations
    is run, you can bring everything back on again via:

    rush -online +any -t 3

    ..this will re-enable the machines to accept renders and
    start frames running. Any frames that *were* running (and were killed)
    will be restarted.

    More info:
    http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/rush-command-line-options.html#-online

* * *

    In all the above cases, the '-t 3' flag sets a 3 second limit for
    how long to wait for unresponsive machines. If unspecified, it will
    wait 45 seconds, which is a long time to wait if one of the machines
    is turned off. You can change the '-t 3' to a larger or smaller number,
    depending on how long you're willing to wait for unresponsive machines.

    Security Note: you can use the rush.conf file to control which users
    are allowed to run these commands; see:
    http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/rush-conf.html#Permit

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