net render help

[jvlive]

i've recently tried to implement network rendering in the office. at first it worked, then after like 3 renders it fails when i send to others pc's. here's the pic: i work on my pc then i have 2 slaves. i run server on all, manager and monitor on mine. the jobs get sent successfully, but when they're almost done on the slaves i get an error message saying :

SERVER XXX FLAGGED AS ERROR AS IT TOOK TOO LONG TO PROCESS TASK

ERROR MESSAGE: TASK TIMEOUT (50 MINS)

then it repeats the render from the start.....

INF SERVERXXX CLEARED AGAIN FOR (JOB) (RETRY#1)

then i get the error message....

ERR CANNOT CREATE A FILE WHEN THAT FILE ALREADY EXISTS. (0XB7)

then it repeats the render again and again. i figure maybe after its 1st try backburner creates a file so that in the 2nd try it thinks it already exists! i dunno, im a noob in this. whats funny is that when a job is sent to my pc it saves the render normally.

need help please.

thanks much.

[JamesTaylor]

not entirely sure how to fix it but the time out error is just a setting - i think the idea is so you could leave a series of renders over a long period say a weekend, and wouldn't have to worry to much about it crashing and then rendering nothing. If a render takes longer than the set time it will restart as it thinks it has crashed - overcome this error by locating the time out setting network rendering manager screen.

 

sorry to be vague, i don't know the ins and out of the network rendering 100% but use it quite a bit at work, hope this helps.

[jvlive]

thanks james. i saw some threads on this just now, so i figured how to adjust the render timeout. ... and as i am typing, just got my 1st completed render from a slave. yipee! thanks to all those who helped on the other similar threads too.

[anvaraziz]

hey can u share how u fixed it ,, i too have the same prob:...

 

thanks

[jvlive]

as i've read in the other posts.....

in the queue monitor right click on the job, then go to edit settings... a job settings window will come up, scroll down to timeouts then adjust the "wait to render" to a higher number (in mins., default is 50). i guess the job i sent required more than 50mins to render so i set it to 120. it was a success after that. hope this helped you.