[Swift-devel] deadlock on workflow:

[Allan Espinosa]

quick update: it looks like resume is working in 0.91:

$ ~/swift/swift-0.91/bin/swift -config swift.properties -resume
resumefile postproc.swift
Swift svn swift-r3826 cog-r2988

RunID: 20110217-1657-erl4auu4
Progress:
Progress:  Finished in previous run:1
Progress:  Finished in previous run:1
Progress:  Finished in previous run:1


2011/2/17 Allan Espinosa <aespinosa at cs.uchicago.edu>:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I haven't tested it yet. I will need my sites.xml definitions to not
> use persistent+ passive coasters before being able to test it.
>
> What's the difference in 'explicit' resume?  In my setup i have a
> "resumefile" that i've been using for the past few months.
>
> -Allan
>
> 2011/2/17 Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>:
>> Allan,
>>
>> If you already stated this I missed it: are you able to run on 0.92? And does the deadlock occur there? Is resume working in 0.92?
>>
>> And, have you considered using explicit resume based on having your input mapper only return members of the dataset that are not yet competed? (I think Glen Hocky used that technique with good results in his latest Glass runs).
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Yeah. I'll take a look at that.
>>>
>>> But the other question is whether the deadlocking version is something
>>> that is worth fixing (i.e. a current stable branch or trunk).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 15:45 -0600, Allan Espinosa wrote:
>>> > The latest trunk breaks for another case (see my post on 'broken
>>> > resume files'). So I can't reproduce this there (yet).
>>> >
>>> > 2011/2/17 Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>:
>>> > > Ok. Your deadlock is genuine, but your version of swift seems old.
>>> > > Are
>>> > > you sure it wasn't fixed in the mean time?
>>> > >
>>> > > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:49 -0600, Allan Espinosa wrote:
>>> > >> Version
>>> > >>
>>> > >> swift-r3835 cog-r2988
>>> > >>
>>> > >> see attached:
>>> > >>


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