Network Maya 2008 Slave Rendering fails with the error "fatal-SLAVE 1 DIED"

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Issue

  • Set up a Mental Ray Satellite rendering with 3 computers or rendering nodes...1 master and 2 slaves. Occasionally, after rendering is enabled,  within a timespan of several hours the master node will lose connection to both slaves with the following errors.

    fatal-SLAVE 1 DIED" "fatal-SLAVE 2 DIED
    

Current setup uses the port 7109.   Mental Ray recomends 7108.   Does it matter what port to use for connection ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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