Daniel Browne wrote:
> [posted to rush.general]
>
> Rush CPU's, yes; I'd like make it so that no matter how many jobs an artist=
> has sitting in the queue, he or she can utilize only a maximum of say 10 r=
> ender machines at any given time.
There's a few ways;
1) When they submit the job, their "Cpus:" setting controls
how many cpus the job gets. So in the simple case:
+any=10@100
..they'll only get 10 frames rendering in parallel max.
But if they make several cpu specifications, like:
+any=10@100 +any=5@900
..then in that case one can get a total of 15.
If you want to cap the /entire job/ at 10, then..
2) Set a 'maxcpus' for the job to be 10. This will cap the entire job
so that even if they keep adding cpus, no more than 10 will run at a time.
Either the user can set this themselves at the "Submit Options:" prompt
(under the "Rush" tab), eg:
Submit Options: maxcpus 10
..and that would cap the job's cpus to no more than 10.
In the "Cpus" report of irush, you'll see messages like "Maxcpus reached 10/10"
when cpus get turned away due to the cap.
If you want to 'invisibly' force this, you can jam that command
into (for instance) the submit-maya.pl script by finding this section
of the script:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
my $submit = <<"EOF";
title $in{JobTitle}
frames $newframespec
command perl $G::self -render $batchframes $batchstart $batchend ...
$submitoptions
EOF
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
..and adding a line "maxcpus 10", eg:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
my $submit = <<"EOF";
title $in{JobTitle}
frames $newframespec
command perl $G::self -render $batchframes $batchstart $batchend ...
$submitoptions
maxcpus 10 # <-- ADD THIS LINE
EOF
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
..that will force the job to have a maxcpus of 10,
regardless of what the user specifies.
Note that this can be changed after the job has been submitted
inside irush using Job Edit -> Job Info -> MaxCpus:
I advise making it a 'policy' not to change this, and let
peer pressure/producer pressure take it from there.
--
Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
Seriss Corporation
Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
Tel: (Tel# suppressed)ext.23
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