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.

Use the following procedures to suspend and reactivate jobs.

To suspend a rendering job:

  1. Select one or more jobs in the Job list.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • In the toolbar, click the Suspend button (or press Ctrl+S).
    • From the Jobs menu, choose Suspend.
    • Right-click a job in the Job list and choose Suspend.

    The selected job is suspended. The icon for the job turns yellow to indicate the job's new status.

    NoteIf one of the selected jobs is completed, the Suspend button is disabled.

To reactivate a suspended rendering job:

  1. Select a suspended job (indicated by a yellow icon).
  2. Do one of the following:
    • In the toolbar, click the Activate button (or press Ctrl+A).
    • Right-click the job and choose Activate.
    • From the Jobs menu, choose Activate.

    The selected job is reactivated and its icon changes from yellow to green. If another job is already being processed, the selected job becomes pending, and its icon turns white.