[Swift-devel] Coaster Task Submission Stalling

[Mihael Hategan]

Yes. That's what seems to be causing the problem. worker.pl requires it,
but start-coaster-service doesn't enforce it nor does it report when
workers fail to start.

Mihael

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 16:43 -0500, Tim Armstrong wrote:
> Yes, it's not set anywhere - should I be setting it to something?
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Do you happen to have an empty/missing WORKER_LOG_DIR in the service
> > config file?
> >
> > Mihael
> >
> > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 16:17 -0500, Tim Armstrong wrote:
> > > Right, the other mode of running the service probably makes the most
> > sense,
> > > I have this in the test suite though since it's the most straightforward
> > > way to test the C client running in a passive coaster configuration.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ok, I see this in coaster-start-service.log:
> > > >
> > > > Running /home/tim/ExM/swift-k.git/dist/swift-svn/bin/worker.pl
> > > > http://127.0.0.1:60566 LOCAL
> > > > Not given: LOGDIR
> > > >
> > > > Looks like that script hasn't been updated in a while. Things probably
> > > > worked for you before because it wasn't running jobs through workers.
> > > >
> > > > I'll try to see what's happening with that.
> > > >
> > > > However, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't see much benefit in this
> > > > particular case for managing workers through a shell script rather than
> > > > letting the service do the work. So as far as C client testing goes you
> > > > could just use -shared.
> > > >
> > > > You can, of course, start worker.pl manually until this gets sorted
> > out.
> > > >
> > > > Mihael
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 13:02 -0700, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > > > I take it all back.
> > > > >
> > > > > It looks like submitting jobs to a passive service with empty
> > settings
> > > > > should work.
> > > > >
> > > > > What I do not see in your log is any workers being actually started.
> > How
> > > > > are you starting the workers?
> > > > >
> > > > > Mihael
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 11:32 -0700, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 09:52 -0500, Tim Armstrong wrote:
> > > > > > > Would the "local" setting be in the -shared config file?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Shared and passive should be mutually exclusive, although I don't
> > think
> > > > > > the code enforces that. I'll make sure it would.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But hang on. The whole thing makes no sense. So let me get back to
> > you
> > > > > > on it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Mihael
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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