[Swift-devel] Re: Thank you guys for the help

[Mihael Hategan]

So how do you clean up after the jobs?

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:50 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> yep, I notice this also from the tests before. I was trying to shorten 
> this period of time
> logstate "RM_JOBDIR"
> #rm -rf "$DIR" 2>&1 >& "$INFO"
> #checkError 254 "Failed to remove job directory $DIR"
> 
> logstate "TOUCH_SUCCESS"
> 
> As I comment the above 2 lines out, there was stilll a time gap between 
> these two time stamp.
> 
> zhao
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote:
> > The wrapper log graph here shows not much time taken apart from the 
> > execution:
> >
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~zzhang/report-sleep-20081003-1246-hj5bau82/info.zeroed-trailsx.png
> >
> > The plot from your pre-patched version on 30th september:
> >
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~zzhang/report-sleep-20080930-2311-pn6sbed7/info.zeroed-trailsx.png
> >
> > looks like its spending a lot more time doing other stuff.
> >
> > It seems strange that changing the status file handling caused such a 
> > tightening of the other lines (representing time taken to do other 
> > wrapper.sh activities) on the graph, especially the times related to the 
> > jobdir handling (see previous message).
> >
> >