   From: Dylan Penhale <dylanpenhale@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Mayabatch restarting after rushd stopped
   Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:01:35 -0400

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Recently we have been performing a roll out of 102.42.a6 to some (and eventually all) of the machines on the network, starting with the XP machines. I have noticed that when we offline rush and then net stop rushd we sometimes get mayabatch coming back in the process tree. If we kill it in task manager it comes back up to three times in total. I myself have only seen this happen once, but other people have reported to have seen it several times. Your other email explained the rush process tree being:

111 rushd

112 perl /path/to/renderscript

113 maya -batch

So I can’t really understand how these mayabatch processes could be coming from rush once it is stopped unless something is miss-configured somewhere. Are you aware of anything else that could fire of these retries?

Dylan Penhale
Fuel International

   From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: Mayabatch restarting after rushd stopped
   Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:50:18 -0400

Msg# 1370
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Dylan Penhale wrote:

Recently we have been performing a roll out of 102.42.a6 to some (and
eventually all) of the machines on the network, starting with the XP
machines. I have noticed that when we offline rush and then net stop rushd

we sometimes get mayabatch coming back in the process tree.


	Is there a reason you're not using 'rush -getoff' instead
	of 'net stop rushd'?

	'net stop rushd' is kind of harsh, as that will likely
	orphan the renders.

If we kill it in
task manager it comes back up to three times in total.


	Sounds like the retry loop from the script, which is probably
	not being killed.

	You want to kill both the script and the mayabatch, in that order.

several times. Your other email explained the rush process tree being:

111 rushd
       \
  112  perl /path/to/renderscript
         \
    113   maya -batch

So I can't really understand how these mayabatch processes could be coming
from rush once it is stopped unless something is miss-configured somewhere.


	If you kill rushd, the perl script and maya -batch become orphaned.

	If you then kill 'maya -batch' (or mayabatch), the script is still
	running, and its retry loop will try to restart maya (up to three times)

Are you aware of anything else that could fire of these retries?


	No, I'm pretty sure it's as I describe.

	Keep in mind rushd is not responsible for the retries,
	the perl render script is.

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