From: Craig Allison <craig@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: Rendered frame stuck on status "Run"
   Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:15:54 -0400
Msg# 1711
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Once again apologies, I've been incredibly busy!

Looks like the kernel change was a "happy coincidence", it certainly solved my multi cpu issue (only one was seen) and it seemed that it also solved my status "Run" issue, but it looks like this was more shake script specific than an actual solution.

I'd noticed that the /tmp partition was being filled to 100% as it was relatively small so I've reconfigured that today so that's there's plenty of headroom, this has fixed the "Run" status issue but now I'm getting wildly differing render times for consecutive frames. See below:

Done 0002     3   render43    4773     render48.62     03/25,16:58:19 00:23:43 
Done 0003     3   render43    4775     render48.62     03/25,16:58:19 00:23:42 
Done 0004     3   render43    4828     render48.62     03/25,17:22:02 00:00:18 
Done 0005     3   render43    4836     render48.62     03/25,17:22:03 00:00:17 
Done 0006     3   render43    4846     render48.62     03/25,17:22:21 00:00:22 
Done 0007     3   render43    4848     render48.62     03/25,17:22:21 00:00:22 
Done 0008     3   render43    4864     render48.62     03/25,17:22:44 00:00:34 
Done 0009     3   render43    4866     render48.62     03/25,17:22:44 00:00:34 
Done 0010     3   render43    4882     render48.62     03/25,17:23:19 00:30:35 
Done 0011     3   render43    4884     render48.62     03/25,17:23:19 00:30:35 
Done 0012     3   render43    4907     render48.62     03/25,17:53:54 00:00:17 
Done 0013     3   render43    4909     render48.62     03/25,17:53:54 00:00:15 

At least the status is not sticking on "Run" but I don't understand why the frames are differing so much - I will let it run on a few more scenes before I hit the panic button!


Just though I'd leave an update!


Cheers


Craig

Craig Allison

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On 20 Mar 2008, at 19:12, Greg Ercolano wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Craig Allison wrote:
Sorry about the delay getting back on this one, I've been very busy!

The problem was intermittent but a change of kernel seems to have  
eradicated the problem altogether...

Thanks for the follow up, Craig..

So the problem was with the default Debian 4 + Shake 4.1 combo.
Interesting.

Just curious: is it a known issue where a kernel upgrade was
a known solution, or was it just a happy coincidence?

If it was a known issue, guess I'd be curious to see any links
that might have helped you, in case they cover details as to the
cause, in case it's something I should watch out for across the
board with linux.

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