redline to Qmater?

[Kaku Ito]

I don't think REDCODE works with G5.

I'm only getting 1 instance of REDline when exporting a script from REDrushes to Qmaster. I'm on a Mac pro with 8 cores and 8 instances setup. In Qmaster I add a new Shell... then set environment by loading the script file. I then submit it to my cluster. The cluster is connected to 10 rendering nodes. 8 on the Mac Pro and 2 on a G5. Only 1 instance on the Mac Pro are processing the job. Anyone else having a similar problem?

The Mac Pro is the Services and cluster controller. The G5 is services only. The managed check box is checked on both for "Shake and other shell command processing".

This is the script:

REDline -i /Users/Andrae/Desktop/RED\ DEMO\ REEL\ FOOTAGE/A001_06293F.RDM/A001_C001_0629Q9.RDC/A001_C001_0629Q9_001.R3D --outDir /Users/Andrae/Desktop/redline -w 0 -R 1 --useMeta --filter 5 --fit 1 --QTcodec 0 --resizeX 2048 --resizeY 1080 --noClobber

[Andrae Palmer]

I don't think REDCODE works with G5.

Even when I take the G5 computer out of the equation I still only get one instance. This happens when I set up a quick cluster too.

[Agustin Goya]

This is the script:

REDline -i /Users/Andrae/Desktop/RED\ DEMO\ REEL\ FOOTAGE/A001_06293F.RDM/A001_C001_0629Q9.RDC/A001_C001_0629Q9_001.R3D --outDir /Users/Andrae/Desktop/redline -w 0 -R 1 --useMeta --filter 5 --fit 1 --QTcodec 0 --resizeX 2048 --resizeY 1080 --noClobber

You are not running qmaster with that command only redline.
In order to see how the command should look open Red Alert and mark the qmaster command option and save to command file

[Kaku Ito]

Hi Simon,

Now I'm ready with x4 8 core Mac Pros to do this, but I want to ask you few things.

The script you have posted, how should I save it as "redline.sh" as a file?

And after preparing this script then what do I have to do in REDRUSH to utilize this script?

Thank you very much in advance.

Kaku

[Andrae Palmer]

You are not running qmaster with that command only redline.
In order to see how the command should look open Red Alert and mark the qmaster command option and save to command file

Thanks! Boy was I way off with this one. :-)

[simonpeterarnold]

Hi Simon,

Now I'm ready with x4 8 core Mac Pros to do this, but I want to ask you few things.

The script you have posted, how should I save it as "redline.sh" as a file?

And after preparing this script then what do I have to do in REDRUSH to utilize this script?

Thank you very much in advance.

Kaku

Just use text editor on the mac or any PC and save it as a .sh file. make sure you edit the name of the cluster to your cluster.

[simonpeterarnold]

I'm only getting 1 instance of REDline when exporting a script from REDrushes to Qmaster. I'm on a Mac pro with 8 cores and 8 instances setup. In Qmaster I add a new Shell... then set environment by loading the script file. I then submit it to my cluster. The cluster is connected to 10 rendering nodes. 8 on the Mac Pro and 2 on a G5. Only 1 instance on the Mac Pro are processing the job. Anyone else having a similar problem?

The Mac Pro is the Services and cluster controller. The G5 is services only. The managed check box is checked on both for "Shake and other shell command processing".

This is the script:

REDline -i /Users/Andrae/Desktop/RED\ DEMO\ REEL\ FOOTAGE/A001_06293F.RDM/A001_C001_0629Q9.RDC/A001_C001_0629Q9_001.R3D --outDir /Users/Andrae/Desktop/redline -w 0 -R 1 --useMeta --filter 5 --fit 1 --QTcodec 0 --resizeX 2048 --resizeY 1080 --noClobber

If you only send one file to it it will only use one node I am afraid regardless of how many cores you have. It does not spread it over each core unless you set the Qmaster to run 1 instance only on the machine. But then you can only convert one file at a time. the advantage of having 8 instances is that you can submit 8 renders at the same time, this can have overheads on you machine though if it is also running the redline commands and acting as the render manager.

[simonpeterarnold]

Just use text editor on the mac or any PC and save it as a .sh file. make sure you edit the name of the cluster to your cluster.

To use Redrushes as long as you have the application folder set up as a watched folder (look at previous post about this) then all you do is just save out a script from redsushes to the watched folder and the script will do the rest.

[Kaku Ito]

Simon, sorry it's a unix questions, but I switched in the terminal to logon as root then typed the command to run the redline.sh, but it comes back saying permission denied.

It looks like this.

dhcp07:~ root# /Applications/redline/redline.sh > /dev/null 2&1
[1] 4758
-sh: /Applications/redline/redline.sh: Permission denied
-sh: 1: command not found
[1]+ Done(126) /Applications/redline/redline.sh 2 > /dev/null

What do you think I'm doing wrong?

[simonpeterarnold]

Simon, sorry it's a unix questions, but I switched in the terminal to logon as root then typed the command to run the redline.sh, but it comes back saying permission denied.

It looks like this.

dhcp07:~ root# /Applications/redline/redline.sh > /dev/null 2&1
[1] 4758
-sh: /Applications/redline/redline.sh: Permission denied
-sh: 1: command not found
[1]+ Done(126) /Applications/redline/redline.sh 2 > /dev/null

What do you think I'm doing wrong?

Not sure what the issue is TBH, we run the script as the systems regular user I do not change the login in a shell or anything as it just runs in the background all the time. Have you tried a chmod command on the file to give full access to it. If not chmod -R 777 /Applications/redline.redline.sh and see if that works.