[Swift-devel] How does swift know if a task is successful

Zhao Zhang zhaozhang at uchicago.edu
Tue Mar 17 12:31:31 CDT 2009


ok, thanks, I will try it out.

zhao

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:23 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
>   
>> Hi, Mihael
>>
>> yes, can I do that?
>>     
>
> You should know this by now:
> in vdl-int.k, in doStageout, comment out the task:transfer invocation
> (and dir:make).
>
>   
>> zhao
>>
>> Mihael Hategan wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:14 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Here comes another question, is there any place that I could set to 
>>>> disable swift's waiting for data feature?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Do you mean disable the stage-outs?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Or is there any way for me to cheat swift that the data is already 
>>>> there? thanks.
>>>>
>>>> zhao
>>>>
>>>> Mihael Hategan wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:07 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
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>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi, All
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a question on how swift knows if a task is successful.
>>>>>> In my case, I am using a status notification instead of a status file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So my question is is this status notification the only thing swift is
>>>>>> waiting for, or is swift also waiting for the output data to appear to
>>>>>> say that a job is successful?
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Once the job is done, swift will attempt to stage out all the files that
>>>>> it expects the job to have produced.
>>>>>
>>>>> Should one of those files not be there, there will be failures.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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