[Cookie-users] Cookie unavailable

[Boyana Norris]

Cookie is back and will not be brought down (on purpose) without  
sufficient advance notice.

Boyana

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Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
norris at mcs.anl.gov, +1.630.252.7908, http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~norris/

On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Boyana Norris wrote:

> I can't ping it, so it's really unresponsive now. Hopefully someone  
> comes back from lunch soon.
>
> I used the Van (and occasionally Krishna) method for bringing it  
> down -- cranking the sampling rate for PerfSuite to the magic number  
> of one sample every 100,000 cycles. Later, with some warning, I'd  
> like to establish the highest "safe" sampling rate if possible, so  
> I'll probably bring it down at least once more. Probably not today,  
> though. :)
>
> Boyana
>
> --
> Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
> norris at mcs.anl.gov, +1.630.252.7908, http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~norris/
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Albert Hartono wrote:
>
>> This happened to me before, because of my fault though: my
>> badly-written program allocated tens of GB, causing Cookie hung for
>> hours. I thought it was down, but apparently not (I tried to ping and
>> it's responsive). :-)
>> --Albert
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Boyana Norris<norris at mcs.anl.gov>  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> Cookie is not down, but I doubt you can tell the difference. We  
>>> are letting
>>> it hang for a bit to see if it finishes doing what I told it to.  
>>> When
>>> Systems people come back from lunch, if it hasn't unhung itself,  
>>> we'll
>>> reboot it.
>>> Sorry about that, but it was my turn to do this (can't have all of  
>>> you have
>>> all the fun).
>>> Boyana
>>>
>>> --
>>> Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
>>> norris at mcs.anl.gov, +1.630.252.7908, http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~norris/
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