From: Armando Ricalde <doc@(email surpressed)> Subject: Host problem with rushtop Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:35:54 -0500 |
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Hi. I'm pretty sure this has to do with the OS. With one host (WinXP64) rushtop can't show data, it says: PdhMakeCounterPath('\(0/(NULL))\'):A required argument is missing or incorrect any suggestion? -- ===================================================================== Armando Ricalde | VFX Supervisor | Cluster Studio | +52 55 3004 3622 ===================================================================== www.clusterstudio.com |
From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: Re: Host problem with rushtop Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:04:18 -0500 |
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Armando Ricalde wrote: > I'm pretty sure this has to do with the OS. > With one host (WinXP64) rushtop can't show data, it says: > > PdhMakeCounterPath('\(0/(NULL))\'): A required argument is missing or incorrect > > any suggestion? Hmm, that's an odd one. I imagine you can run jobs normally on the box, and that this error is *only* affecting rushtop's display of cpu info. The Microsoft DLL that handles the "Pdh" calls that Rush uses is Pdh.dll usually found in c:\windows\system32. If there's problems with this file, it can create such errors in Rush. If you have some similar WINXP64 configured machines, check the size of this file to see if it's different from the others. It might be, due to a missing MS OS update or corruption. Is there anything unusual about this machine compared to the other winxp64 machines on your network? ie. an odd hardware configuration for cpus (hyperthreading, or an unusual multiprocessor configuration). I'm guessing you probably have similar WinXP64 boxes that don't have this problem. Microsoft's PDH library can be a pain; about once a year someone comes up with a box that shows similar PDH errors. Usually an update of the Pdh.DLL or an OS reinstall fixes it. But once in a while it's a bug in the Rush code's handling of PDH's errors, so I'd like to work offline with you or your admin to run some test programs on this box to determine if that's the case. I'll contact you off list on this, and follow up here with results. -- Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed) Seriss Corporation Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/ Tel: (Tel# suppressed) Fax: (Tel# suppressed) Cel: (Tel# suppressed) |