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| Hi, Just asking a question about something we've seen for years, and never really thought to ask about before. We have a Mac-based Deadline render farm, and all the slaves use the AErender application to render - exactly the same as Lloyd's BG Render script. It's the Adobe supplied render engine that comes with After Effects. Sometimes, on the individual slaves, the AErender application launches and just hangs without beginning to actually render. We've never figured out why this happens. It's not due to any errors such as fonts, plugins, mounted drives etc etc. We just re-queue the render and chances are it will begin working properly. Every so often we have to kill all the orphaned aerender/ aerendercore processes that are sitting there doing nothing except wasting memory. It doesn't seem to be anything to do with Deadline itself, and we've never seen a pattern with the projects that render normally and those that tend to stall. Any suggestions as to what causes this? -Chris |
