LWSN as service? Start as low-priority? SN3 ?

[cappie]

I have a couple of questions:

1) Is it possible to start LWSN.EXE as a system service at low priority?

I'd like to build a renderfarm using idle cycles on workstations, instead of having dedicated hardware for it... and it would be nice to have it a bit crash-insensitive

2) How to I say in a 'job'-file that a certain frame has to be re-done after a crash or something? (to check for missing frames)

3) Will Screamernet III support IP based communication or something else non-directory-based?

For anyone who is interrested to make their screamernet somewhat failsafe (except for missing frames after crashes):

l: = L: (drive mapping to shared Lightwave directory)

@echo off

echo --= STARTUP NODE %1 =-- -- - > l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
echo LWSN NODE %1 started at: >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
date /T >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
time /T >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
echo ---- --- -- - -- - >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log

echo init > l:\sn_commands\job%1
goto start

:crashed
echo --= CRASHED NODE %1 =-- -- - >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
echo LWSN NODE %1 crashed at: >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
date /T >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
time /T >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
echo ---- --- -- - -- - >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
goto start

:start
@LWSN.exe -2 -dl:\ -cl:\sn_config l:\sn_commands\job%1 l:\sn_commands\ack%1
goto exit

:exit
if NOT %ERRORLEV% == 0 GOTO crashed
echo --= STOPPED NODE %1 =-- -- - >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
echo LWSN NODE %1 stopped at: >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
date /T >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
time /T >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log
echo ---- --- -- - -- - >> l:\sn_commands\node%1.log

[Lightwolf]

1) I think there are command line tools to start anything as a service.
2) dunno - use Spider :)
3) No.

BTW, you can't use drive mapping with services anyhow, use UNC based file paths instead.

I suggest you have a look at Spider (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SXSpider), which does _exactly_ what you want, and is free.

Cheers,
Mike

[hdesbois]

Spider works fine, and have been updated (a linux client is available, not tried yet, though). Files have been uploaded to the SpiderSX yahoogroup.
New version support Maya, and have some install bugs corrected.
HD