DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. It’s still a wonder that the job script module pointed to /drqueue/tmp instead of /Volumes/drqueue/tmp – I may yet […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. I began the new testing round with another Lux test, this time named properly and stored on an external […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. Of course I had neglected to check the logs. The logs showed that all jobs were received, but that […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. I seemed to have the master and one slave talking to each other, but it did not seem as though scripts […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. Finally I got the bottom of some of the configuration issues. Once more I suggest that a serious Linux/Unix […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. I still had major connection problems. The master seemed to send the job script okay. The slave would get it, or so […]
Inspired by a friend’s visit to the doctor to fix his painful toe. This is what I am sure happened.
Of course I wisely waited until optical disk technology was waning before building one of these. But I still have lots of call for burning multiple disks at once, and the drives started to come my way. Once again, the goal was to spend as little as possible and use old and used parts. The […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. I was having even more connection problems. I would restart and Gog wold not be able to see Cyclops on the […]
DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build. It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating. Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. I reconfigured the slave.conf file and restarted. The slave was now running! I manually configured the environment variables: DRQUEUE_LOGS, […]