[Swift-devel] Coasters and std's on ranger

[skenny at uchicago.edu]

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:38 -0500
>From: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>  
>Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Coasters and std's on ranger  
>To: skenny at uchicago.edu
>Cc: swift-devel <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
>
>On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 16:57 -0500, skenny at uchicago.edu wrote:
>> ---- Original message ----
>> >Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:21:57 -0500
>> >From: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>  
>> >Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Coasters and std's on ranger  
>> >To: skenny at uchicago.edu
>> >Cc: swift-devel <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
>> >
>> >On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 13:22 -0500, skenny at uchicago.edu wrote:
>> >> darn...
>> >> 
>> >> Execution failed:
>> >>         Exception in RInvoke:
>> >> Arguments: [scripts/4reg_dummy.R,
>> >> matrices/4_reg/network1/gestspeech.cov, 29, 0.5, speech]
>> >> Host: RANGER
>> >> Directory:
>> >> 4reg_speech-20090714-1309-b650zi68/jobs/3/RInvoke-351ksndj
>> >> stderr.txt:
>> >> 
>> >> stdout.txt:
>> >> 
>> >> ----
>> >> 
>> >> Caused by:
>> >>         Block task failed: 0714-090151-000000Block task
ended
>> >> prematurely
>> >> 
>> >> Cleaning up...
>> >> Shutting down service at https://129.114.50.163:38571
>> >> 
>> >> i can file a bug report with TG if need be, but i'm not
quite
>> >> sure the best thing to tell them (?) also, i'm wondering how
>> >> coasters was previously able to work around this bug? 
>> >
>> >By redirecting stdout+stderr to memory, but that causes the
>> "job manager
>> >could not stage out a file" problem.
>> 
>> actually, i meant (way back when this worked for me :) prior
>> to any of the redirection (circa swift stable release
>> 0.8ish)...but perhaps that's assuming the sge bug existed then
>> as well...
>
>Yes, it did. But due to the way the coasters worked at the
time, the
>error was ignored. I can make it such that this is the case
again.
>

sounds good to me.