Chad Warner Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I hope someone can help me with this. I send a network rendering job, using the advanced tab and setting the "wait for viz to render" set to 6000. (not knowing if this does anything) The problem I have is that the machines get the error: "Error Message: Task timeout (60 minutes)" If anyone can point me in the right direction I would very thankful. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 Having done a search on this forum, I found a similar problem with MAX, but the solution that was posted doesn't seem to effect it. Tried setting the timeout to 3600, but the machines still timeout after 60 minutes. Is there something Im missing? -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 i use max, but i assume the backburner is backburner... it might be a silly question, but do you have the 'enable' box ticked? ....or maybe it is timing out on the load and not the render? i also have 'enable task blocking' ticked, but i don't know what this means. ...out of curiosity, what happens if you disable the 'enable'? ...does that mean it will never time out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 Yeah..enable is ticked. If I don't use the advanced tab, it times out at 50 minutes, which is the default I believe. I would prefer that it didn't time out...that is the problem. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joske Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 you can solve this by text editing (notepad in windows) these settings in your /backburner folders, some cfg or xml there you can change the timeout setting for good. to find the exact file to edit and lines to change look on the discreet site in the support pages, i remember reading it there... you can also change the setting in the timeout like said above, set to 50000 or something, the longer the better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 Tried the timout settings in the backburner monitor and the advanced tab, both to 6000 minutes. No good. Still times out at 60 minutes. I can't find the right setting in the xml file...none of them correspond to a 60 minute time period. I will see what I can come up with on the discreet site. Thanks again. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaz Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Hi Chad, could you put a solution in the forum if you find one, i have the same problem as well, that's the reason i stop using the backburner. thanks in advance W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 What program do you use to network render if not backburner? -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joske Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Render Scene Dialog-Check Net Render-Click Render On the Network Job Assignment dialog look for the button on the bottom left - Advanced !!!!!!! set the time out there before sending the rendertask to monitor make it as big as allowed : 50000 or something, should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhinks Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I have the same problem, but I manage to get the render to last about 3 hours then it times out! Weird how they are all different times. Must be a way to disable the timeouts for good. Im not bothered how long it takes so long as it does it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 50000 or something, should work You're right- It should work. But it doesn't. Strange thing is, if I set the timeout to 5 minutes, the rendering will stop at 5 minutes. If I set the timeout to 62 minutes, it still times out at 60. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 obviously i don't have the answer, but i love to brainstorm, and work through problems like this. i opened my 'backburner.xml' file, and here are some of the settings i have. the one that strikes me off hand is under the MaxClient dialog. this would apply to your render nodes that are communicating with your server. mine are set to not use timeouts, and the other values it think are the default values that max haswhen installed. not sure if this helps, but it couldn't hurt. ...............removed a bunch of stuff........................... - 10.200.200.186 ...............removed a bunch of stuff........................... 3234 No 20 10 50 10 0 Yes Yes ...............removed a bunch of stuff........................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 The problem with that setting is that it is set to 50 minutes. My renderings timeout at 60. I have spent the last two days trying to troubleshoot this, and nothing seems to work. I even installed the trial version of max 6 and it timed out at 60 minutes. Of course my reseller's tech department is no help....charge me $85.00 for a phone call to tell me to make sure that my subnet masks are the same on each computer. Same with Adesk subscription tech support. Wrote an email on monday, and still no response. I guess the next step is to start from scratch and see what happens. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted July 5, 2004 Author Share Posted July 5, 2004 Alright.....after a week of trying to get this to work, I finally did what I should have done in the first place....reinstalled back burner on the manager computer. Rendered several frames over 60 minutes with out any problems. So hopefully, this solves it. Thanks for everyone's suggestions! -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhinks Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 Glad to hear yo got it working in the end Chad. But it doesnt explain why the rest of us are havig the same problem. Going back to crazy homeless guy's post. Could we remove those lines or edit them to 5000+? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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