Overview
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Tractor Initial Setup
- The previous Tractor system, inherited from the former administrative company, did not fit our workflow.
- We reinstalled Tractor, acquired new render farm machines, and set them up.
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Impact
- Ensured Tractor render farm stability prior to the start of main production.
Environment
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Based on
- Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx)
- GNOME (Desktop Manager)
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Tractor 2.2/2.3/2.4
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Set up
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Blades
- Reinstalled and upgraded all blades from 2.2 → 2.3 and set them up.
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Engine (Main Host)
- trator.config
- Job retry times limitation
- Adjustment to use render farm machines capacity percentages by dept.
- Limited job retry times.
- blade.config
- Configured service keys according to machine capacities for API job dispatch.
- Set the blade name groups by machine’s capacity.
- tq
- Set up
tq as a server command for easier usage.