CompuServe Messages

Martin: >> I was hoping that if my non-dedicated server crashed and I got it >> rebooted fast enough, the slaves wouldn't notice Only if you reboot while they are in the middle of a render! And pray a lot, besides! This is why a "stateless" network works so well. If the server goes down and comes back up, the clients won't notice. On some systems, however, if it goes down, everything else must be reset. We've had occasion to reboot our server and all renderings continued when it came back up, except for those dreaded "Error writing Targa file" boxes, which I agree would be great if they could give you an option to retry instead of you just giving them permission to crap out by hitting the 'continue' button. <g>