[Swift-devel] How long do idle coaster workers linger?

[Michael Wilde]

Maxtime limits primarily the walltime request to the local scheduler for the coaster block.

But in addition, I think the workers are shut down before that maxtime expires if there is no more work for them.  Thats the aspect I was asking about.

- Mike

----- "Allan Espinosa" <aespinosa at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> I thought these were decided by maxtime, then the client/ submit host
> will send a shutdown command to the bootstrap service to shutdown
> everything.
> 
> -Allan
> 
> 2010/4/29 Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>:
> > How long do coaster workers (or blocks?) idle before they are shut
> down?
> >
> >

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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory