After a while having no chance to test DBs, I tried 17-03-31 right now with 2 random nodes., Max 2016 SP4 | Windows 10. And I have to say it´s not yet usable for us at the moment :[ Here are the issues:
1. DrServer.exe is still sucking CPU when idle. When I start DrServer.exe it takes about 3% permanent load on a dual xeon and 12-13% on a i7, one logical processor is allways busy.
2. While DrServer window reports status of memory and the max process state correctly when rendering, the master cVFB doesn´t receive any status messages but instead always reports memory 0/0 and "not running". However, nodes render and contribute, the "Updates" and "Passes" values are correct.
Edit: This is/was because of the automatic conversion of the existing nodelist in a scene which consists of nodenames here, not IP adresses. Corona 1.6 puts the node entries from older scenes into the "IP" column regardless if it´s a name or IP adress. This way DR is possible but apparently not receiving any status messages. I was not able to correct the nodelist manually (why the heck am I not allowed to edit it?) but "search lan" created a new one. However I was again not able to sort the resulting list so it´s messy now and there are slaves missing. Did not tried the "from file" option, last hope to get a sane list of nodes again.
Edit2: Additionally I even cannot see the slave numer in the DR tab because "search lan" seems to use the fully qualified domain name of the node. What´s so important about IP adresses? :) (see image)
3. I also get a maxscript popup from post.ms when closing DrServer window with highlight in line 19
4. I got a "Cannot bind to discovery port (UDP 19668)" in the log of Drserver on my box (strangely not that error box at startup) and thus it does not spawn any max instance and refuses to work. The port seems to be bound by the (new) licensing server. At least a "netstat -aon" reveals the PID of licensingserver.exe here. So it´s not possible for me to run drserver.exe and licensingserver.exe simultaneously. When I shut down the license server I can use DrServer.
What I´ve tried so far:
- Applied all available updates (one slave + master only)
- Switched Firewalls off
- Rebooted nodes
- Different user accounts for drserver
- Checked logs - nothing suspicious
- Changed master <-> slave role
Good Luck
« Last Edit: 2017-04-03, 17:01:40 by Frood »
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