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General group
Max(imum) Concurrent Assignments Specifies the number of jobs the
Manager sends out at once. This number is dependent upon the speed of the
processor on the Manager machine, the size of the jobs being sent out, and
the speed of the network system. Generally, a default value of 4 is adequate.
You may want to decrease the value in case the jobs are huge and you have
a modest setup. Similarly, you may want to increase this value if you have a
high-end setup and the jobs are small. Be aware that too high a value may
result in an increased number of timeouts because the jobs are sent faster than
the Servers can handle them. In such a case, decrease the value or leave it at
the default.
User Server Limit Sets the maximum number of servers that will be allocated
for a specific job. This feature overrides the server limit settings in the 3ds
Max
Advanced Settings Dialog on page 6296 .
Task Error Limit Defines the number of times a server will retry a task before
suspending the task. This option is available only in the Manager General
Properties dialog.
Failed Servers group
This option allows the Manager to automatically restart Servers that have
failed jobs.
Restart Failed Servers Activate to enable automatic Server restarting. If this
option is turned off, the Server will not attempt to render the job again after
the first failure. Default=on.
Number of Retries Specifies the number of times the Manager attempts to
restart a failed Server. Default=3. Range=1 to 1024.
Seconds Between Retries The time, in seconds, between each retry.
Default=30.
NOTE The state of a Server is kept on a per-job basis. If Restarts Failed Servers is
turned on, the Manager keeps track of when a Server fails a particular job. The
Manager regularly goes through the list of Servers for that job, checking for failures.
If one is found, the Manager checks how long it has been since it failed. If the time
elapsed is greater than the specified Seconds Between Retries, the Manager
decreases the Number of Retries by one and resets the failed flag from the Server.
If a Server fails repeatedly on a specific job (failures are monitored on a per-job
basis), the failure count reaches the specified Number of Retries, and the
Manager stops trying to restart that Server for that particular job. If, on the
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