Add a Worker configuration option to configure the Linux out-of-memory
behaviour. Add `oom_score_adjust=500` to `flamenco-worker.yaml` to increase
the chance that Blender gets killed when the machine runs out of memory,
instead of Flamenco Worker itself.
There's still some confusion that this is a thing to solve, whereas it can
usually safely be ignored. Reduced the log level from Warn to Info to make
the message look more innocent.
Increase the 'database open' timeout from 5 seconds to 1 minute. This
timeout also covers database migrations, and the recently added one that
adds a bunch of `NOT NULL` clauses could time out with the old 5 sec
limit.
The reason this takes long, is that SQLite doesn't directly support
adding `NOT NULL` clauses to columns. The only way to do this is to
create a new table with the desired schema, copy all data over, then
drop the old table. And with a big enough database, this takes time.
GORM has certain downsides:
- Code-first approach, where queries have to be translated to the Go code
required to execute them.
- GORM comes with its own SQLite implementation, which doesn't provide an
on-connect callback. This means that new connections cannot correctly
enable foreign key constraints, causing database consistency issues.
[SQLC](https://sqlc.dev/) solves these issues for us.
This commit doesn't fully replace GORM with SQLC, but introduces it for
a few queries. Once all queries have been converted, GORM can be removed
completely.
Send an event to the event bus whenever the farm status changes. The event
contains a farm status report (like `{status: "active"}`), and is sent to
the `/status` topic.
Note that at this moment the status is only polled every X seconds, and
thus may lag behind other events.
Add a new API operation to get the overall farm status. This is based on
the jobs and workers, and their status.
The statuses are:
- `active`: Actively working on jobs.
- `idle`: Farm could be active, but has no work to do.
- `waiting`: Work has been queued, but all workers are asleep.
- `asleep`: Farm is idle, and all workers are asleep.
- `inoperative`: Cannot work: no workers, or all are offline/error.
- `starting`: Farm is starting up.
- `unknown`: Unexpected configuration of worker and job statuses.
Send events on Manager startup & shutdown. To make this possible, events
sent to MQTT are now queued up until an MQTT server can be reached.
Otherwise the startup event would be sent before the MQTT connection was
established.
Introduce an "event bus"-like system. It's more like a fan-out
broadcaster for certain events. Instead of directly sending events to
SocketIO, they are now sent to the broker, which in turn sends it to any
registered "forwarder". Currently there is ony one forwarder, for
SocketIO.
This opens the door for a proper MQTT client that sends the same events
to an MQTT server.
Create a dedicated package `.../pkg/website` to contain constants for the
URLs of documentation, bug reporting, etc. That way it's easier to see
which parts of the website are being referred to from the Flamenco
binaries, and updates can happen in a central spot.
No functional changes.
In addition to logging `GOOS` and `GOARCH`, also log more info about the
system:
- Windows: the Windows version and edition.
- Linux: distribution, distribution version, and kernel version.
- macOS: just "macOS", until we know more about getting info there too.
When the worker is started with `-restart-exit-code 47` or has
`restart_exit_code=47` in `flamenco-worker.yaml`, it's marked as
'restartable'. This will enable two worker actions 'Restart
(immediately)' and 'Restart (after task is finished)' in the Manager web
interface. When a worker is asked to restart, it will exit with exit
code `47`. Of course any positive exit code can be used here.
Rename the add-on from `flamenco3-addon.zip` to `flamenco-addon.zip`.
It still contains the same files as before, and in Blender the name of
the add-on has not changed.
Change the package base name of the Go code, from
`git.blender.org/flamenco` to `projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco`.
The old location, `git.blender.org`, has no longer been use since the
[migration to Gitea][1]. The new package names now reflect the actual
location where Flamenco is hosted.
[1]: https://code.blender.org/2023/02/new-blender-development-infrastructure/
Instead of always performing the periodic integrity check, make it possible
to disable it or run it at different intervals.
Currently for the Blender Studio it's crunch time, so the check should
really only run when there is someone looking at the system (i.e. at
restarts for upgrade purposes).
`flamenco-worker -version` now shows the 'extended' version. This is just
the application version when running a release build. Otherwise it will
be like `3.3-alpha0 (v3.2-nn-ghhhhhh)`, where `nn` is the number of commits
since the last-tagged version (`v3.2` in this example), and `ghhhhhh` is
the Git hash. This can optionally be suffixed by `-dirty` if there were
any uncommitted changes when Flamenco was built.
Due to an issue (which has been fixed in the previous commit), all tasks
in the database were deleted when starting Flamenco. This tool attempts
to recompile the job and recreate its tasks.
The statuses of the tasks are set based on the job status. Basically:
- job active → tasks queued
- job completed → tasks completed
- job cancelled / failed → tasks cancelled
- otherwise → tasks queued
To ensure that the tool is only used to create tasks from scratch, it
refuses to work on a job that still has tasks in the database.
This is a command that can be run to retroactively set the Shaman
Checkout ID of jobs, allowing the job deletion to also remove the job's
Shaman checkout directory.
This is highly experimental, and not built by default or shipped with
Flamenco releases. It's only been used once at Blender Animation Studio
to help cleaning up. Run at your own risk. Make backups first.
Implement the `deleteJob` API endpoint. Calling this endpoint will mark
the job as "deletion requested", after which it's queued for actual
deletion. This makes the API response fast, even when there is a lot of
work to do in the background.
A new background service "job deleter" keeps track of the queue of such
jobs, and performs the actual deletion. It removes:
- Shaman checkout for the job (but see below)
- Manager-local files of the job (task logs, last-rendered images)
- The job itself
The removal is done in the above order, so the job is only removed from the
database if the rest of the removal was succesful.
Shaman checkouts are only removed if the job was submitted with Flamenco
version 3.2. Earlier versions did not record enough information to reliably
do this.
Blender not being found can be reported via various errors (this should be
reworked in the 'blender finder API' at some point). `exec.ErrNotFound` is
returned when Blender cannot be found on `$PATH`, which is something that's
absolutely fine. This is now logged less dramatically.
Avoid the word "error" in logging when Blender cannot be found. Typically
these are warnings, and having the word "error" there makes people think
otherwise.
`make update-version` now also updates
`web/project-website/data/flamenco.yaml` so that the new version is
listed as the latest one on flamenco.blender.org.
Note that such a change will only be visible online after publishing the
site with `make project-website`. Be sure to only do this after the
build has been uploaded there, to avoid dead links.
Instead of sending the current process an interrupt signal, use a dedicated
channel to signal the wish to shut down. The main function responds to that
channel closing by performing the shutdown.
This solves an issue where the Worker would not cleanly shut down on
Windows when `offline` state was requested by the Manager.
When launching Flamenco from a server system with no way to open a web
browser, just ask the user to launch one. Quitting the Manager because
of this was a bit too dramatic.
Extract some code from `cmd/flamenco-manager/main.go` into `webservice.go`
in the same directory, just to make `main.go` a little smaller.
No functional changes.
Don't log the git commands in the version updater Go code. They are already
shown by the Makefile (`update-version` target), and we should only have
one set of those commands to maintain.
Include `RELEASE_CYCLE` in the Makefile. This is mentioned at startup of
Manager and Worker, and reflects in the software version they report.
If `RELEASE_CYCLE == "release"`, Manager and Worker report their version
as `ApplicationVersion`. If it's any other string, the Git hash will get
appended.
Blender and FFmpeg were run in the same way, using copy-pasted code. This
is now abstracted away into the CLI runner, which in turn is moved into
its own subpackage.
No functional changes.
This commit does not introduce functional changes, besides renaming
every mention of 'wizard' with 'setup assistant'. In order to run the
manager setup assistant use:
./flamenco-manager -setup-assistant
The change was introduced to favor more neutral and descriptive working
for this functionality. Thanks to Sybren for helping to get this done!
Logging the URLs at which the Manager can be reached as the last thing
when starting up, in the hope that this makes them more noticable and
inviting to actually visit.
Flamenco now no longer uses the Git tags + hash for the application
version, but an explicit `VERSION` variable in the `Makefile`.
After changing the `VERSION` variable in the `Makefile`, run
`make update-version`.
Not every part of Flamenco looks at this variable, though. Most
importantly: the Blender add-on needs special handling, because that
doesn't just take a version string but a tuple of integers. Running
`make update-version` updates the add-on's `bl_info` dict with the new
version. If the version has any `-blabla` suffix (like `3.0-beta0`) it
will also set the `warning` field to explain that it's not a stable
release.
Worker will now try one of the following paths, relative to the flamenco-worker
executable, in order to find FFmpeg. If they cannot be found, `$PATH` is
searched for FFmpeg.
- `tools/ffmpeg-$GOOS-$GOARCH`
- `tools/ffmpeg-$GOOS`
- `tools/ffmpeg`
On Windows these paths will have a `.exe` suffix appended. `$GOOS` is the
operating system, like "linux", "darwin", "windows", etc. `$GOARCH` is the
architecture, like "amd64", "386", etc.
Change the location where the Worker writes its local files so that it
follows the XDG specification (instead of writing to the current working
directory).
- Linux: `$HOME/.local/share/flamenco`
- Windows: `C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Flamenco`
- macOS: `$HOME/Library/Application Support/Flamenco`
NOTE: The old files will not be loaded any more. This means that if
nothing is done and the new worker is run as-is, it will reregister as a
brand new worker. Move `flamenco-worker-credentials.yaml` and
`flamenco-worker.sqlite` to the new location to avoid this.
