[Swift-devel] Swift unresponsive while using local provider.

[Mihael Hategan]

I'm sorry, but I don't follow. Is there a new error?


On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 18:55 -0500, Alberto Chavez wrote:
> sites.template.xml is producing this error, as soon as I remove the
> file from the directory, the error goes away as well.
> These are the contents of such file:
> 
> <config>
>   <pool handle="localhost">
>     <filesystem provider="local" />
>     <execution provider="coaster" jobmanager="local:local"/>
>     <profile namespace="globus"
> key="internalHostname">127.0.0.1</profile>
>     <profile namespace="karajan"  key="jobthrottle">1000</profile>
>     <profile namespace="karajan"  key="initialScore">10000</profile>
>     <profile namespace="globus"   key="jobsPerNode">4</profile>
>     <profile namespace="globus"   key="slots">8</profile>
>     <profile namespace="globus"   key="maxTime">1000</profile>
>     <profile namespace="globus"   key="nodeGranularity">1</profile>
>     <profile namespace="globus"   key="maxNodes">4</profile>
>     <workdirectory>/tmp</workdirectory>
>   </pool>
> </config>
> 
> 
> -Alberto
> 
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Swift unresponsive while using local
> provider.
> > From: hategan at mcs.anl.gov
> > To: davidkelly999 at gmail.com
> > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:56:25 -0700
> > CC: swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
> > 
> > do "jstack -l <pid_of_swift_java_process>" whenever it happens and
> send
> > the output.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:48 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > > I saw similar things on my laptop (4 gb ram) this weekend when I
> was
> > > testing the galaxy demo scripts using the local provider. I was
> using
> > > trunk. In the output I would see things like "no activity for 10s"
> and
> > > it just would sit there and do nothing until I manually killed it.
> But
> > > most of the time it would work fine. I wrote a little shell script
> > > that would repeatedly run it until it hung. Then I was talking to
> Jon
> > > about this and he saw something similar with his montage work. He
> > > thought it might be related to a configuration issue - that either
> > > wrapper.parameter.mode=files or status.mode=provider should be
> set.
> > > 
> > > I can send my scripts as well if you need some help in tracking
> this
> > > down.
> > > 
> > > David
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
> > > wrote:
> > > Alberto, how long are you letting it run for, and under what
> > > environment? if you are running on your laptop, how much RAM
> > > do you have? Its possible that you are seeing paging delays
> > > if you are running the Swift Java app with too little memory.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Also, are you running trunk or 0.92.1? You should compare the
> > > two.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Its *possible* that this simple test is hanging under recent
> > > trunk mods, but its more likely that this is some kind of
> > > resource shortage.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can you run this on one of the Swift lab machines bridled or
> > > communcado, or better yet on the MCS compute servers, or a
> > > PADS worker node (which you can get with qsub -I on pads)?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Look at Swift under the "top" command to see if Swift is
> > > running and slow, or is hung.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Stop by and we can discuss in more detail.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > - Mike
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ______________________________________________________________
> > > 
> > > When I run the following SwiftScript using suite.sh,
> > > the report shows an odd behavior, most of the time it
> > > times out, but once in a while it passes, however this
> > > outcome is completely random, since sometimes that
> > > test has passed 3 times in a row, and all of the
> > > sudden it fails.
> > > This is my script:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > type messagefile;
> > > 
> > > 
> > > app (messagefile t) greeting (string s[]) {
> > > echo s[0] s[1] s[2] stdout=@filename(t);
> > > }
> > > 
> > > 
> > > messagefile outfile <"q5out.txt">;
> > > 
> > > 
> > > string words[] = ["how","are","you"];
> > > 
> > > 
> > > outfile = greeting(words);
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Swift.properties contents:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > $ cat swift.properties 
> > > wrapperlog.always.transfer=true
> > > sitedir.keep=true
> > > execution.retries=0
> > > lazy.errors=false
> > > status.mode=provider
> > > use.provider.staging=false
> > > provider.staging.pin.swiftfiles=false
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sites.template.xml contents:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > $ cat sites.template.xml 
> > > <config>
> > > <pool handle="localhost">
> > > <filesystem provider="local" />
> > > <execution provider="coaster"
> > > jobmanager="local:local"/>
> > > <profile namespace="globus"
> > > key="internalHostname">127.0.0.1</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="karajan"
> > > key="jobthrottle">1000</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="karajan"
> > > key="initialScore">10000</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="globus"
> > > key="jobsPerNode">4</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="globus"
> > > key="slots">8</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="globus"
> > > key="maxTime">1000</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="globus"
> > > key="nodeGranularity">1</profile>
> > > <profile namespace="globus"
> > > key="maxNodes">4</profile>
> > > <workdirectory>/tmp</workdirectory>
> > > </pool>
> > > </config>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -Alberto
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Michael Wilde
> > > Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> > > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > > Argonne National Laboratory
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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