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by selsner
Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Afserver crashes
Replies: 43
Views: 52909

Afserver crashes

Hello, we have crashes of the afserver from time to time. Maybe you can help with finding the cause. This is the backtrace: #0 0x0000003752432625 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000003752433e05 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000003752470537 in __libc_message () from /lib64/libc.so.6...
by selsner
Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:08 pm
Forum: Maya
Topic: mayapy crash
Replies: 4
Views: 9919

Re: mayapy crash

For the record, this is solved by setting the env var:

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MAYA_DISABLE_CIP=1
taken from: http://lost-triangle.com/2016/09/05/ins ... ntu-16-04/
by selsner
Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:54 pm
Forum: Maya
Topic: mayapy crash
Replies: 4
Views: 9919

mayapy crash

I have a very weird issue. We run "afrender" at system startup via the service that comes with afanasy. When executing the following command with afrender started this way, the mayapy executable segfaults: /usr/autodesk/maya2016/bin/mayapy -c "import pymel.core;import os;os._exit(0)&q...
by selsner
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:32 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Render Pools
Replies: 25
Views: 42315

Re: Render Pools

Works for me! I think {"farm_name_mask": "myfarm" } job parameter has the least impact on the server code and the most positive effect for beginning users. Its just an alternative to the hostmask parm and may be used together or standalon. GUIs will then just show it next to the ...
by selsner
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:18 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Render Pools
Replies: 25
Views: 42315

Re: Render Pools

ok, yes, then it could make sense to have a

{"farmname_mask": "myfarm" }

parameter on the job, that is used when solving. I see how this can be helpful. The concept is much easier to grasp for normal artists.
by selsner
Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:31 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Render Pools
Replies: 25
Views: 42315

Re: Render Pools

Indeed, so I don't see a benefit. What is the resoning of people requesting this?
by selsner
Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:32 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Render Pools
Replies: 25
Views: 42315

Re: Render Pools

For us I don't see any benefit right now from adding this. I guess it makes only sense if there is no name pattern to a group of machines. For this we could just add a new config item "hostlist" to the farm.json like: { "name":"stations", "hostlist":["sta...