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. </aside>

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) </aside>

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Tractor 2.2/2.3/2.4

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Set up

• Blades

  • Reinstalled and upgraded all blades from 2.2 → 2.3 and set them up.

• 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.