[Swift-devel] progress stats lying

[Glen Hocky]

as a user, it seems very important to have accurate summary stats so you 
can tell if anything is going wrong.

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 07:15 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Ben Clifford wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> A possible solution is to add another state ("Checking status" or
>>>> something), that is triggered in Execute by a task completed event.
>>>>         
>> r2887 adds a checking status event in execute2, right after the 
>> vdl:execute call. I think that is sufficient? or are you claiming that 
>> something deeper in the execute layer is delaying things?
>>     
>
> It's probably better but not sufficient. With many threads there may be
> delays between the vdl:execute call completing and the next thing
> running may be visible.
>
> The problem is that swift may say that more jobs are active than known
> possible, which will raise eyebrows.
>
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