Hello Fatima,

??? Are there two render jobs running on render130?? The other render nodes are using a single license.

Fatima Mojaddidy wrote:

For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for rendering, some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly.... inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad core machine.

Here are more details:

Version of Maya = maya2009-x64

Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:

/usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a

lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31

License server status: 7111@license
??? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:

?? license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4

Vendor daemon status (on license):

??? sgiawd: UP v11.4

Feature usage info:

Users of MayaCompletef:? (Total of 5 licenses issued;? Total of 1 license in use)

? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905), start Tue 2/9 11:10

Users of MayaMRFMCompletef:? (Total of 5 licenses issued;? Total of 5 licenses in use)

? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101), start Tue 2/9 13:27
??? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502), start Tue 2/9 13:29
??? min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302), start Tue 2/9 13:30
??? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407), start Tue 2/9 13:30
??? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705), start Tue 2/9 13:30

Users of MayaUnltdf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of MayaFluidSimf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 2 licenses in use)

? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 605), start Tue 2/9 13:28
??? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207), start Tue 2/9 13:30

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?Are you running version ?11.5 of ?FLEX? ?The copyright message on the lmstat is showing me that you may be running an older version. ?That would be the first thing to check.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fatima Mojaddidy [mailto:fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 04:45 PM
>To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>Subject: Mental Ray license problem
>
>For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for rendering,
>some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly....
>inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad
>core machine.
>
>Here are more details:
>
>Version of Maya = maya2009-x64
>
>Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:
>
>/usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a
>
>lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision
>Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31
>
>License server status: 7111@license
> ? ?License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:
>
> ? license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4
>
>Vendor daemon status (on license):
>
> ? ?sgiawd: UP v11.4
>
>Feature usage info:
>
>Users of MayaCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 1 license in
>use)
>
> ?"MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
> ?floating license
>
> ? ?derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905),
>start Tue 2/9 11:10
>
>Users of MayaMRFMCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 5
>licenses in use)
>
> ?"MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
> ?floating license
>
> ? ?min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101),
>start Tue 2/9 13:27
> ? ?min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502),
>start Tue 2/9 13:29
> ? ?min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302), start
>Tue 2/9 13:30
> ? ?min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407),
>start Tue 2/9 13:30
> ? ?min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705),
>start Tue 2/9 13:30
>
>Users of MayaUnltdf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses in
>use)
>
>Users of MayaFluidSimf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses
>in use)
>
>Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 2
>licenses in use)
>
> ?"MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
> ?floating license
>
> ? ?min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 605), start
>Tue 2/9 13:28
> ? ?min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207),
>start Tue 2/9 13:30
>

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I had the same issue and has to setup mentalray pools for different versions.

On our case for mentalray, setup your render pool for license -1 number of nodes?. (we have 10 lincenses, so 9 nodes)

Luckily it does not count towards the number of CPUs of you nodes? so if you have a node with 4 cores, that node will take only 2 licenses, but render 4 frames at a time.

?

From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Fatima Mojaddidy
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:45 PM
To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Subject: Mental Ray license problem

?

For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for rendering, some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly.... inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad core machine.

Here are more details:

Version of Maya = maya2009-x64

Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:

/usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a

lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31

License server status: 7111@license
??? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:

?? license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4

Vendor daemon status (on license):

??? sgiawd: UP v11.4

Feature usage info:

Users of MayaCompletef:? (Total of 5 licenses issued;? Total of 1 license in use)

? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905), start Tue 2/9 11:10

Users of MayaMRFMCompletef:? (Total of 5 licenses issued;? Total of 5 licenses in use)

? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101), start Tue 2/9 13:27
??? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502), start Tue 2/9 13:29
??? min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302), start Tue 2/9 13:30
??? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407), start Tue 2/9 13:30
??? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705), start Tue 2/9 13:30

Users of MayaUnltdf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of MayaFluidSimf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 2 licenses in use)

? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 605), start Tue 2/9 13:28
??? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207), start Tue 2/9 13:30

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?Upgrade your license server! ?While the older version may work most of the time, it is not the supported version.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: bill@yuco.com [mailto:bill@yuco.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:22 PM
>To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com

>Subject: Re: ?Mental Ray license problem
>
>
> He's probably referring to MR standalone. Once again, it appears you are not running the correct version of FLEX for 2009. Upgrade your version of FLEX and see if the problem persists!
>
> Also look at the access times for the licenses. The second floating license is tagged three minutes after the first. Could there be some type of processing going on that require the Unlimited license?
>
>> "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawdfloating license
>
>> min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101), start Tue 2/9 13:27
>
>> "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd floating license
>
>> min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207), start Tue 2/9 13:30
>
>
> Have you checked the log files to see what is specifically is happening at those times?
>
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Due to licensing restrictions.. we can only use a certain number of nodes for particular applications (AE plugins, mentalray, Cinema4D). On the case of MayaMentalRay we only own 10 render licenses.

We use Smedge, and with that app we can specify render pools. So only an specific number of nodes are allowed to render mentalray.

What we find out after several tests, is that we can only have 9 nodes (10 render licenses ? 1 client license) on the mentalray render pool.

Ahhh I see what you mean I think. In the case of Maya2009 (not sure for Maya2010) what happens is if an artist is using maya interactively, then you can use the MFRM license only on that machine. So lets say you have 10 Maya licenses and therefore 10 MFRM licenes, and 2 artists are using Maya on their box. Now you can only render on 8 render nodes and the other 2 of your floating MFRM licenses are tied to those artists' boxes. So in our shop, our Maya artists understand this and put their machines on the queue for this type of rendering while also running Maya.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Rafael Toledo <rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:

Due to licensing restrictions.. we can only use a certain number of nodes for particular applications (AE plugins, mentalray, Cinema4D). On the case of MayaMentalRay we only own 10 render licenses.

We use Smedge, and with that app we can specify render pools. So only an specific number of nodes are allowed to render mentalray.

What we find out after several tests, is that we can only have 9 nodes (10 render licenses ? 1 client license) on the mentalray render pool.

?MFRM is loaded by the artist. ?You can run Maya without having it loaded; disable it in the plugin manager.

?BTW, have you updated your version of FLEX? ?The example you gave, shows that a render box was using two licenses. ?This is not normal behavior, unless the render needed some advance feature for a simulation.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fatima Mojaddidy [mailto:fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com]

>Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 09:16 PM
>To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>
>Ahhh I see what you mean I think. In the case of Maya2009 (not sure for
>Maya2010) what happens is if an artist is using maya interactively, then you
>can use the MFRM license only on that machine. So lets say you have 10 Maya
>licenses and therefore 10 MFRM licenes, and 2 artists are using Maya on
>their box. Now you can only render on 8 render nodes and the other 2 of your
>floating MFRM licenses are tied to those artists' boxes. So in our shop, our
>Maya artists understand this and put their machines on the queue for this
>type of rendering while also running Maya.
>
>On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>
>> ?Due to licensing restrictions.. we can only use a certain number of nodes
>> for particular applications (AE plugins, mentalray, Cinema4D). On the case
>> of MayaMentalRay we only own 10 render licenses.
>>
>> We use Smedge, and with that app we can specify render pools. So only an
>> specific number of nodes are allowed to render mentalray.
>>
>> What we find out after several tests, is that we can only have 9 nodes (10
>> render licenses ? 1 client license) on the mentalray render pool.
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:01 PM
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>>
>> Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Rafael, not sure what you mean by mentalray pools exactly, could you
>> please explain more?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>> rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had the same issue and has to setup mentalray pools for different
>> versions.
>>
>> On our case for mentalray, setup your render pool for license -1 number of
>> nodes?. (we have 10 lincenses, so 9 nodes)
>>
>> Luckily it does not count towards the number of CPUs of you nodes? so if
>> you have a node with 4 cores, that node will take only 2 licenses, but
>> render 4 frames at a time.
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:45 PM
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> Subject: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for rendering,
>> some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly....
>> inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad
>> core machine.
>>
>> Here are more details:
>>
>> Version of Maya = maya2009-x64
>>
>> Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:
>>
>> /usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a
>>
>> lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision
>> Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>> Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31
>>
>> License server status: 7111@license
>> ? ? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:
>>
>> ? ?license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4
>>
>> Vendor daemon status (on license):
>>
>> ? ? sgiawd: UP v11.4
>>
>> Feature usage info:
>>
>> Users of MayaCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 1 license
>> in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905),
>> start Tue 2/9 11:10
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 5
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:27
>> ? ? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:29
>> ? ? min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302), start
>> Tue 2/9 13:30
>> ? ? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>> ? ? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>>
>> Users of MayaUnltdf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses in
>> use)
>>
>> Users of MayaFluidSimf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses
>> in use)
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 2
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 605), start
>> Tue 2/9 13:28
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>>
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About to do that right now Bill, had to wait for the Maya artists to finish their day.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:43 PM, <bill@yuco.com> wrote:

?MFRM is loaded by the artist. ?You can run Maya without having it loaded; disable it in the plugin manager.

?BTW, have you updated your version of FLEX? ?The example you gave, shows that a render box was using two licenses. ?This is not normal behavior, unless the render needed some advance feature for a simulation.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fatima Mojaddidy [mailto:fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com]

>Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 09:16 PM
>To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>
>Ahhh I see what you mean I think. In the case of Maya2009 (not sure for
>Maya2010) what happens is if an artist is using maya interactively, then you
>can use the MFRM license only on that machine. So lets say you have 10 Maya
>licenses and therefore 10 MFRM licenes, and 2 artists are using Maya on
>their box. Now you can only render on 8 render nodes and the other 2 of your
>floating MFRM licenses are tied to those artists' boxes. So in our shop, our
>Maya artists understand this and put their machines on the queue for this
>type of rendering while also running Maya.
>
>On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>
>> ?Due to licensing restrictions.. we can only use a certain number of nodes
>> for particular applications (AE plugins, mentalray, Cinema4D). On the case
>> of MayaMentalRay we only own 10 render licenses.
>>
>> We use Smedge, and with that app we can specify render pools. So only an
>> specific number of nodes are allowed to render mentalray.
>>
>> What we find out after several tests, is that we can only have 9 nodes (10
>> render licenses ? 1 client license) on the mentalray render pool.
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:01 PM
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>>
>> Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Rafael, not sure what you mean by mentalray pools exactly, could you
>> please explain more?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>> rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had the same issue and has to setup mentalray pools for different
>> versions.
>>
>> On our case for mentalray, setup your render pool for license -1 number of
>> nodes?. (we have 10 lincenses, so 9 nodes)
>>
>> Luckily it does not count towards the number of CPUs of you nodes? so if
>> you have a node with 4 cores, that node will take only 2 licenses, but
>> render 4 frames at a time.
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:45 PM
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> Subject: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for rendering,
>> some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly....
>> inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad
>> core machine.
>>
>> Here are more details:
>>
>> Version of Maya = maya2009-x64
>>
>> Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:
>>
>> /usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a
>>
>> lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision
>> Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>> Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31
>>
>> License server status: 7111@license
>> ? ? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:
>>
>> ? ?license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4
>>
>> Vendor daemon status (on license):
>>
>> ? ? sgiawd: UP v11.4
>>
>> Feature usage info:
>>
>> Users of MayaCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 1 license
>> in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905),
>> start Tue 2/9 11:10
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 5
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:27
>> ? ? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:29
>> ? ? min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302), start
>> Tue 2/9 13:30
>> ? ? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>> ? ? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>>
>> Users of MayaUnltdf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses in
>> use)
>>
>> Users of MayaFluidSimf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses
>> in use)
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 2
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 605), start
>> Tue 2/9 13:28
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>>
>>
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I upgraded maya flexlm and so far it seems to be working =) Thanks Bill.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Fatima Mojaddidy <fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com> wrote:

About to do that right now Bill, had to wait for the Maya artists to finish their day.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:43 PM, <bill@yuco.com> wrote:

?MFRM is loaded by the artist. ?You can run Maya without having it loaded; disable it in the plugin manager.

?BTW, have you updated your version of FLEX? ?The example you gave, shows that a render box was using two licenses. ?This is not normal behavior, unless the render needed some advance feature for a simulation.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fatima Mojaddidy [mailto:fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com]

>Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 09:16 PM
>To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>
>Ahhh I see what you mean I think. In the case of Maya2009 (not sure for
>Maya2010) what happens is if an artist is using maya interactively, then you
>can use the MFRM license only on that machine. So lets say you have 10 Maya
>licenses and therefore 10 MFRM licenes, and 2 artists are using Maya on
>their box. Now you can only render on 8 render nodes and the other 2 of your
>floating MFRM licenses are tied to those artists' boxes. So in our shop, our
>Maya artists understand this and put their machines on the queue for this
>type of rendering while also running Maya.
>
>On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>
>> ?Due to licensing restrictions.. we can only use a certain number of nodes
>> for particular applications (AE plugins, mentalray, Cinema4D). On the case
>> of MayaMentalRay we only own 10 render licenses.
>>
>> We use Smedge, and with that app we can specify render pools. So only an
>> specific number of nodes are allowed to render mentalray.
>>
>> What we find out after several tests, is that we can only have 9 nodes (10
>> render licenses ? 1 client license) on the mentalray render pool.
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:01 PM
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>>
>> Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Rafael, not sure what you mean by mentalray pools exactly, could you
>> please explain more?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>> rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had the same issue and has to setup mentalray pools for different
>> versions.
>>
>> On our case for mentalray, setup your render pool for license -1 number of
>> nodes?. (we have 10 lincenses, so 9 nodes)
>>
>> Luckily it does not count towards the number of CPUs of you nodes? so if
>> you have a node with 4 cores, that node will take only 2 licenses, but
>> render 4 frames at a time.
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:45 PM
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> Subject: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for rendering,
>> some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly....
>> inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad
>> core machine.
>>
>> Here are more details:
>>
>> Version of Maya = maya2009-x64
>>
>> Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:
>>
>> /usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a
>>
>> lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision
>> Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>> Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31
>>
>> License server status: 7111@license
>> ? ? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:
>>
>> ? ?license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4
>>
>> Vendor daemon status (on license):
>>
>> ? ? sgiawd: UP v11.4
>>
>> Feature usage info:
>>
>> Users of MayaCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 1 license
>> in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905),
>> start Tue 2/9 11:10
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 5
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:27
>> ? ? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:29
>> ? ? min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302), start
>> Tue 2/9 13:30
>> ? ? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>> ? ? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>>
>> Users of MayaUnltdf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses in
>> use)
>>
>> Users of MayaFluidSimf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses
>> in use)
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 2
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 605), start
>> Tue 2/9 13:28
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 207),
>> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>>
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Does your render farm software renders one frame per render node or one frame per cpu ?

?

From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Fatima Mojaddidy
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:11 PM

To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem

?

I spoke too soon, the problem is back:

License status:

/usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a

lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2007 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Flexible License Manager status on Thu 2/11/2010 15:02

License server status: 7111@license
??? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:

?? license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.5

Vendor daemon status (on license):

??? sgiawd: UP v11.5
Feature usage info:

Users of MayaCompletef:? (Total of 5 licenses issued;? Total of 1 license in use)

? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 903), start Thu 2/11 14:55

Users of MayaMRFMCompletef:? (Total of 5 licenses issued;? Total of 5 licenses in use)

? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 310), start Thu 2/11 14:23
??? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 412), start Thu 2/11 14:36
??? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 712), start Thu 2/11 14:38
??? min render129.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 613), start Thu 2/11 14:45
??? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 813), start Thu 2/11 15:02

Users of MayaUnltdf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of MayaFluidSimf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:? (Total of 2 licenses issued;? Total of 2 licenses in use)

? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
? floating license

??? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 511), start Thu 2/11 14:38
??? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 213), start Thu 2/11 14:58

Rush log:

ws205.773: 0028

?If hyper-threading is on, turn it off.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fatima Mojaddidy [mailto:fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com]

>Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 07:19 PM
>To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>
>I've set it up to render 1 frame per node. We're using RUSH, this is done by
>specifying the RAM setting in RUSH.
>
>On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>
>> ?Does your render farm software renders one frame per render node or one
>> frame per cpu ?
>>
>>
>>
>> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com[mailto:
>> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:11 PM
>>
>> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>>
>>
>>
>> I spoke too soon, the problem is back:
>>
>> License status:
>>
>> /usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a
>>
>> lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2007 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision
>> Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>> Flexible License Manager status on Thu 2/11/2010 15:02
>>
>> License server status: 7111@license
>> ? ? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:
>>
>> ? ?license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.5
>>
>> Vendor daemon status (on license):
>>
>> ? ? sgiawd: UP v11.5
>> Feature usage info:
>>
>> Users of MayaCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 1 license
>> in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 903),
>> start Thu 2/11 14:55
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 5
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 310), start
>> Thu 2/11 14:23
>> ? ? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 412),
>> start Thu 2/11 14:36
>> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 712),
>> start Thu 2/11 14:38
>> ? ? min render129.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 613),
>> start Thu 2/11 14:45
>> ? ? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 813),
>> start Thu 2/11 15:02
>>
>> Users of MayaUnltdf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses in
>> use)
>>
>> Users of MayaFluidSimf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses
>> in use)
>>
>> Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 2
>> licenses in use)
>>
>> ? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> ? floating license
>>
>> ? ? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 511), start
>> Thu 2/11 14:38
>> ? ? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 213),
>> start Thu 2/11 14:58
>>
>> *Rush log:
>> *
>> ###
>> ### ws205.773: 0028
>> ###
>> --------------- Rush 102.42a8 --------------
>> -- ? ? ?Host: ws214
>> -- ? ? ? Pid: 29026
>> -- ? ? Title: original_originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34
>> -- ? ? Jobid: ws205.773
>> -- ? ? Frame: 0028
>> -- ? ? Tries: 0
>> -- ? ? Owner: min (5141/100)
>> -- RunningAs: min (5141/100)
>> -- ?Priority: 500
>> -- ? ? ?Nice: 10
>> -- ? ?Tmpdir: /var/tmp/.RUSH_TMP.2654
>> -- ? LogFile:
>> /home/min/rushlogs/original_originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34/0028
>> -- ? Command:
>> /hammerhead/shows/original/shot_01/maya/logo/scenes/.originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34.rend
>> 1 240
>> -- ? Started: Thu Feb 11 14:23:53 2010
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> /mnt/isilon/original
>>
>> bin/ ? ? ? filmout/ ?maya/ ? ? ? ?paintings/ ? ? review/
>> cut/ ? ? ? finals@ ? new_source/ ? ?production/ ?shake_scripts/
>> elements/ ?master/ ? nuke_scripts/ ?reference/ ? ? shot_01/
>>
>>
>> /mnt/isilon/original/shot_01
>>
>> comps/ ? ? ? ? ? hh_scripts/ ?mayaOld/ ? ?precomps/ ?roto_scripts/
>> comp_scripts/ ?max/ ? ? ? ?movies/ ? ?ref/ ? ? ? scans/
>> elements/ ? ? ?maya/ ? ? ? ?paintings/ ? ?renders/ ? track_scripts/
>>
>>
>> Starting "/opt/autodesk/maya2009-x64/bin/maya"
>>
>> mental ray for Maya 10.0
>> mental ray: version 3.7.1.26, Jul 30 2008, revision 26576
>> File read in 0 seconds.
>> Result:
>> /hammerhead/shows/original/shot_01/maya/logo/scenes/originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34.mb
>> mental ray: got 2 satellite CPUs.
>> mental ray: got 2 satellite CPUs.
>> mental ray: got 2 satellite CPUs.
>> mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
>> API ?0.0 ?warn ? 302018: type conflict: "outColor" is type color,
>> "maya_color_to_vector" returns type vector
>> mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
>>
>> ps output on ws214:
>>
>> ps -aef | grep min
>> root ? ? ?3911 ? ? 1 ?0 Jan22 tty1 ? ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
>> root ? ? ?3912 ? ? 1 ?0 Jan22 tty2 ? ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
>> root ? ? ?3913 ? ? 1 ?0 Jan22 tty3 ? ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
>> root ? ? ?3914 ? ? 1 ?0 Jan22 tty4 ? ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
>> root ? ? ?3915 ? ? 1 ?0 Jan22 tty5 ? ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
>> root ? ? ?3917 ? ? 1 ?0 Jan22 tty6 ? ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
>> min ? ? ?29026 ?3866 ?0 14:23 ? ? ? ? ?00:00:00 /bin/tcsh -f
>> /hammerhead/shows/original/shot_01/maya/logo/scenes/.originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34.rend
>> 1 240
>> min ? ? ?29036 29026 ?0 14:23 ? ? ? ? ?00:00:00
>> /opt/autodesk/maya/bin/Render -r mr -s 28 -e 28 -b 1
>> /hammerhead/shows/original/shot_01/maya/logo/scenes/originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34.mb
>> min ? ? ?29037 29036 ?0 14:23 ? ? ? ? ?00:00:00 /bin/csh -f
>> /opt/autodesk/maya2009-x64/bin/maya -batch -file
>> /hammerhead/shows/original/shot_01/maya/logo/scenes/originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34.mb
>> -script /usr/tmp/ASTMPpuVdAx.mel
>> min ? ? ?29053 29037 99 14:23 ? ? ? ? ?01:19:44
>> /opt/autodesk/maya/bin/maya.bin -batch -file
>> /hammerhead/shows/original/shot_01/maya/logo/scenes/originalFilm_anim17_lightOriginal_v34.mb
>> -script /usr/tmp/ASTMPpuVdAx.mel
>> root ? ? 29444 29403 ?0 15:03 pts/5 ? ?00:00:00 grep min
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Fatima Mojaddidy <
>> fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I upgraded maya flexlm and so far it seems to be working =) Thanks Bill.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Fatima Mojaddidy <
>> fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> About to do that right now Bill, had to wait for the Maya artists to finish
>> their day.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:43 PM, <bill@yuco.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ?MFRM is loaded by the artist. ?You can run Maya without having it loaded;
>> disable it in the plugin manager.
>>
>> ?BTW, have you updated your version of FLEX? ?The example you gave, shows
>> that a render box was using two licenses. ?This is not normal behavior,
>> unless the render needed some advance feature for a simulation.
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Fatima Mojaddidy [mailto:fatima.mojaddidy@gmail.com]
>>
>> >Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 09:16 PM
>> >To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> >Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>> >
>> >Ahhh I see what you mean I think. In the case of Maya2009 (not sure for
>> >Maya2010) what happens is if an artist is using maya interactively, then
>> you
>> >can use the MFRM license only on that machine. So lets say you have 10
>> Maya
>> >licenses and therefore 10 MFRM licenes, and 2 artists are using Maya on
>> >their box. Now you can only render on 8 render nodes and the other 2 of
>> your
>> >floating MFRM licenses are tied to those artists' boxes. So in our shop,
>> our
>> >Maya artists understand this and put their machines on the queue for this
>> >type of rendering while also running Maya.
>> >
>> >On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>> >rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> ?Due to licensing restrictions.. we can only use a certain number of
>> nodes
>> >> for particular applications (AE plugins, mentalray, Cinema4D). On the
>> case
>> >> of MayaMentalRay we only own 10 render licenses.
>> >>
>> >> We use Smedge, and with that app we can specify render pools. So only an
>> >> specific number of nodes are allowed to render mentalray.
>> >>
>> >> What we find out after several tests, is that we can only have 9 nodes
>> (10
>> >> render licenses ? 1 client license) on the mentalray render pool.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com
>> [mailto:
>> >> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf
>> Of
>> >> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:01 PM
>> >> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> >>
>> >> Subject: Re: Mental Ray license problem
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hey Rafael, not sure what you mean by mentalray pools exactly, could you
>> >> please explain more?
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Rafael Toledo <
>> >> rafael.toledo@trailerpark.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I had the same issue and has to setup mentalray pools for different
>> >> versions.
>> >>
>> >> On our case for mentalray, setup your render pool for license -1 number
>> of
>> >> nodes?. (we have 10 lincenses, so 9 nodes)
>> >>
>> >> Luckily it does not count towards the number of CPUs of you nodes? so if
>> >> you have a node with 4 cores, that node will take only 2 licenses, but
>> >> render 4 frames at a time.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> From:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com
>> [mailto:
>> >> studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@mailman.studiosysadmins.com] *On Behalf
>> Of
>> >> *Fatima Mojaddidy
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:45 PM
>> >> To:discuss@studiosysadmins.com
>> >> Subject: Mental Ray license problem
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> For some reason, when rendering a Maya job using Mental Ray for
>> rendering,
>> >> some our render machines will pull two licenses.... randomly....
>> >> inconsistently.... does not matter if it's dual quad core or single quad
>> >> core machine.
>> >>
>> >> Here are more details:
>> >>
>> >> Version of Maya = maya2009-x64
>> >>
>> >> Below render130 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef and 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf:
>> >>
>> >> /usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat -a
>> >>
>> >> lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or
>> Macrovision
>> >> Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>> >> Flexible License Manager status on Tue 2/9/2010 13:31
>> >>
>> >> License server status: 7111@license
>> >> ? ? License file(s) on license: /var/flexlm/aw_license.dat:
>> >>
>> >> ? ?license: license server UP (MASTER) v11.4
>> >>
>> >> Vendor daemon status (on license):
>> >>
>> >> ? ? sgiawd: UP v11.4
>> >>
>> >> Feature usage info:
>> >>
>> >> Users of MayaCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 1
>> license
>> >> in use)
>> >>
>> >> ? "MayaCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> >> ? floating license
>> >>
>> >> ? ? derick ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/pts/4 (v2009) (license/7111 905),
>> >> start Tue 2/9 11:10
>> >>
>> >> Users of MayaMRFMCompletef: ?(Total of 5 licenses issued; ?Total of 5
>> >> licenses in use)
>> >>
>> >> ? "MayaMRFMCompletef" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> >> ? floating license
>> >>
>> >> ? ? min render130.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 101),
>> >> start Tue 2/9 13:27
>> >> ? ? min render127.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 502),
>> >> start Tue 2/9 13:29
>> >> ? ? min ws205.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 302),
>> start
>> >> Tue 2/9 13:30
>> >> ? ? min render128.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 407),
>> >> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>> >> ? ? min render126.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 705),
>> >> start Tue 2/9 13:30
>> >>
>> >> Users of MayaUnltdf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0 licenses
>> in
>> >> use)
>> >>
>> >> Users of MayaFluidSimf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 0
>> licenses
>> >> in use)
>> >>
>> >> Users of MayaMRFMUnlimitedf: ?(Total of 2 licenses issued; ?Total of 2
>> >> licenses in use)
>> >>
>> >> ? "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf" v2009, vendor: sgiawd
>> >> ? floating license
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I'm not seeing the issue in these logs. ? Your flexlm logs show that you are using 5 licenses (one on the workstation and 4 on the renderfarm). ?Your ps output from min shows the mental ray render job being performed there. ?Your rush log shows that mental ray is running on 5 machines.

I can't see where a license is being eaten.

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On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Fatima Mojaddidy wrote:

mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.

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Hey Fatima,

Yes I saw that, MRFM will take one license for the ws and 4 for the renderfarm. ?The MRFMUnlimited license is pulled 15 minutes later, I am assuming at this point for something within the file that requires an Unlimited license to render. ?In which case the license server is correctly again grabbing one for the client and one for the renderfarm.

Without further understanding the workflow and the maya file in question, that's about as far as I can get.

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On Feb 12, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Fatima Mojaddidy wrote:

Hey Todd, look under "MayaMRFMCompletef" and then "MayaMRFMUnlimitedf"

??? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 310), start Thu 2/11 14:23

??? min ws214.hammerhead.local /dev/tty (v2009) (license/7111 511), start Thu 2/11 14:38

ws214 is pulling 1 MayaMRFMCompletef followed by 1 MayaMRFMUnlimitedf when it is only rendering 1 frame (#28) according the the RUSH logs and ps info.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Todd Smith <todd@sohovfx.com> wrote:

I'm not seeing the issue in these logs. ? Your flexlm logs show that you are using 5 licenses (one on the workstation and 4 on the renderfarm). ?Your ps output from min shows the mental ray render job being performed there. ?Your rush log shows that mental ray is running on 5 machines.

I can't see where a license is being eaten.

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mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.

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I had asked to upload the Maya scene file as an ma 4 days ago

Just for the record ;-)

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On Feb 14, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Ben De Luca <bdeluca@gmail.com> wrote:

Some where between

mental ray: got 2 satellite CPUs.
mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.

Some thing in the scene made the scene load the unlimited license.?

Re render but turn up the debugging on the render, I havn't had to deal with MR for a while, but we cant really debug it any further with out the scene.?

If you can't post it I understand, but you will want to look for components of the scene that specify, some thing that unlimited can only do.?

It really does seem like a bug though that the complete license is not returned, I would bet autodesk would suggest you upgrade to 2010 to resolve it.

Things that come to mind, Is there a Mental ray for maya unlimited feature line or is it the same thing? Are you using referencing??

I can see that if you have referenced another scene file that requires the unlimited mr unlimited feature that might happen, if you are rendering with references take the scene and export it first before rendering, so you have a single file.

Whilst having mental ray renders hang on the farm is pretty common, and then hold onto a license you can see that render is switching from complete to unlimited.

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