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

[Michael Wilde]

Excellent, thanks. That explains what we saw in debugging Wenjun's most recent problem posted here.

Long term it might be necessary to separate out these two quantities, but for now this is certainly fine.

- Mike

----- "Mihael Hategan" <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > How long do coaster workers (or blocks?) idle before they are shut
> down?
> > 
> 
> Idle blocks are shut down after the reserve time (one minute). If by
> some reason the connection to the workers is lost, workers also shut
> down after some idle time, which is 2 or 4 minutes.

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