Hi!
Sorry, maybe this is a stupid question, but until now we only had Shake
and unlimited render licenses, so I haven't had this problem:
how do I manage a limited number of render licenses of my production
software (in my case: Nuke) without restricting myself too much in the
hosts file?
What I'd like to do: install Nuke on as many machines (renderfarm and
user workstations) as possible. Add a +nuke group in the hosts file to
all these machines that have nuke on it. Then I'd like to submit my nuke
scripts with '+nuke=x@100' where x is the number of render licenses that
I bought.
All this works fine as long as there is only one render job on the farm.
But after submitting a second job, this one will start on another x
machines, which obviously will fail because I don't have enough render
licenses.
One solution would be to only add x machines to the +nuke group in my
hosts file so I do a hard limit on the machines. That's what I'm doing
at the moment with our plugins like Furnace, Sapphire, etc. There I have
only 2 render licenses or so, so it is easy to maintain the hosts file
if a machine dies or something like this. But to manage this for 10, 20
or more render licenses (but less render licenses than available render
machines!) would be really problematic, especially because I have many
workstations that are only part time online in rush if a user is away
from his machine.
So is there a better way to deal with this whole license problem and I
just haven't found it in the manual, or do I have to do this with the
number of machines I'd assign to a group?
Thanks in advance,
Abraham
Abraham Schneider
Senior VFX Compositor
ARRI Film & TV Services GmbH
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