[Swift-devel] too much slow down.

[Michael Andric]

...often for hours 'til we kill it.

and by that, i mean eternity.  i've let things go overnight to see what
would happen and it's still just hanging when i check it in the morning.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:35 AM, <skenny at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> so andric and i have been doing lots of runs the past week
> with the latest swift. we've definitely noticed a lack of
> errors from swift. that is, when it can't get a job thru it
> hangs...often for hours 'til we kill it.
>
> yesterday my job hung for about 20min so i
> killed it and tried running it with the previous version of
> swift. right away i got an error saying that the job was
> having trouble creating a directory on the remote site (which
> was in fact a correct error, there was a problem with the
> permissions).
>
> my personal vote would be for faster failures. i guess it's
> also worth mentioning that we rarely (read: never) run
> multi-site...mostly bcs we need to separate debugging our
> workflows from debugging our sites :)
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:52:22 -0500
> >From: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> >Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] too much slow down.
> >To: Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>
> >Cc: swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
> >
> >On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:37 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> >> With the recent changes made to the scheduler to deal with
> bad sites in a
> >> multisite run, the behaviour in the presence of a single
> bad site and no
> >> good sites seems to be that a run will sit for a very long
> time rather
> >> than the previous behaviour of failing pretty fast.
> >>
> >> This is perhaps unpleasant, perhaps not; but its a
> significant change to
> >> behaviour.
> >
> >Isn't this what we wanted?
> >
> >>
> >
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