Suspending and Reactivating Jobs
 
 
 

Suspending and reactivating jobs is commonly used to quickly improve job throughput and network efficiency. For example, you might suspend one job to temporarily assign its render nodes to another that is more urgent. Or, if a particular job is taking too long, you can suspend it until off-peak hours, allowing shorter jobs to complete in the meantime. Sometimes, a low-priority job can 'grab' a processing node during the brief moment when it is between tasks—in such a case, suspending the low-priority job will return system resources to jobs with higher priorities.

To suspend a rendering job:

  1. Click the Jobs tab and select the job you want to suspend.
  2. From the Action menu, choose Suspend.

    The selected job is suspended.

    NoteIf the selected job is completed, the Suspend command has no effect.

To reactivate a suspended rendering job:

  1. Click the Jobs tab and locate a suspended job.
  2. From the Action menu, choose Activate.

    The selected job is reactivated. If another job is already being processed, the selected job becomes pending.