[BUG] Network Slave does not upload it's stuff

[griesenglonz]

Hi there.

I have the following setup: Master running on Mac OS X 10.5.7, 3GB RAM, 2x2.33GHz / Slave running on Windows XP SP3, 4GB RAM, 2x2.80GHz.

I've successfully completed one overnight render where everything was fine. But last night I started another render job, checking the log of the first 30 Minutes - everything ok. In the morning I was wondering about the poor result and checked the log: the slave haven't downloaded any frame for a long time - but still runs with 100% CPU usage. Also three clients where displayed in the network render section of Indigo (one with 65k Samples/s, the others with 0k).

Is this a bug or did I make any mistake?

Achim

[Zom-B]

Hey glonz

I had the same problem as yours during Internet based network sessions, its reported here.

Do you maybe use a (poor) WLAN network?

[griesenglonz]

Hi ZomB,

thanks for your reply. I have a very good WLAN Connection based on an Airport Extreme Base Station and both computers are only a few feet away from the station. No packet loss or something like that.

I have rebooted both machines and now I'm trying a fresh restart. Let's have a look...

Achim

[zeitmeister]

Hi Achim,
I let my scene render overnight yesterday and everything was okay... 3 Macs with OS X 10.5.7.
Strange.

[Marvin]

I have two network slaves. One does what it should, the other one doesn't find the master even though I can ping to it and have no firewall active.
With the free indigo versions everything was fine.

[griesenglonz]

I think the issue happens only when I work on my Mac during Master/Slave-Renderings (yes this works very good, Indigo has 190% CPU, the rest is for the UI). At overnight renderings everything seems ok...

Achim

[OnoSendai]

I haven't experienced this problem, but it does sound like it takes a whole night to reproduce
There will be some changes to the network code in the upcoming 2.2, which may help.

[Zom-B]

a hamachi based network with 2 slaves is promising to reproduce

Anyway I'll be happy to test 2.2 here!

[Zom-B]

Maybe some timeout option can help, that during the slave upload checks if for XXX time no data gets send anymore, so the slave could be reseted?!