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Using Auto-Shutdown Timer

What’s the purpose of the Session Auto-shutdown Setting on my Boost for Daz Dashboard?

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The Session Auto-shutdown pulldown is used to control the duration of the active GPU session. The default duration is 4.5 hours. In other words, the duration set here will be the time your render session will run unless you terminate it before that time - assuming, of course, that you have successfully completed your render and you no longer need the GPU session. It’s important to note that whatever new time you change the Session Auto-shutdown value to includes the time already spent in the session (prior to this change).

So, for example, let’s assume that the current session time is the default 4.5 hours and you’ve already spent 1 hour in this session (i.e. 3.5 hours left unless you terminate it earlier). You feel you don’t require 3.5 hours, and you select a new Auto-shutdown value of 2 hours. This will reset the timer to 2 hours, but it will take into consideration the 1 hour that was already spent is in session. So the new remaining time left in the session will be 1 hour. However, if you choose a new Auto-shutdown value that is less than (or equal to) the duration already spent, then your session will immediately terminate and all renders in progress will be lost. So using the above scenario, if you picked a new Auto-shutdown value of 30 minutes. Since this (30 min) is less than the 1 hour already spent in the session, the remaining time will be negative, and the session will terminate.

Here are some additional examples of how the remaining session time is calculated for the Session Auto-shutdown:

Session Auto-shutdown setting is useful in situations where you might have batched a number of render jobs on a particular GPU and you know that will take longer than the default (4.5 hours). In this case, you would pick your GPU, start your session, and then submit multiple batch jobs to the Iray server running on your selected GPU. Changing the auto-shutdown timer will effectively give you the convenience of a ‘set it and forget it’ feature. If you’ve timed it appropriately, your batch renders will complete, and your GPU will stop at the set time. This also gives you the added benefit of stopping your billing at the right time.

The Session Auto-shutdown can be set to last from 30 minutes to 12 hours, with a default duration of 4.5 hours. If a render takes longer than the duration set for the Session Auto-shutdown setting, it will be terminated.

Boost for Daz Auto-Shutdown Timer Logic