[Swift-user] Swift/PBS Scheduler Slow to Report "Finished"?

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Mar 19 17:29:00 CDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:24 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> I think using coasters direct to PBS would be a good approach for you to 
> try. Your jobs will finish fast and send their data back. Im no sure if 
> the Swift engine itself will exit when all the jobs are done, or if it 
> will wait for the coaster-worker PBS jobs to terminate.

It will try to shut the service (and workers) down when the client JVM
exist. It may fail to do so, but it will not wait around.

>  Even if so, that 
> should still enable you to do a lot of productive workflow testing and 
> experimentation. You'll know all the jobs are done from the progress 
> report on stdout.
> 
> On 3/19/09 4:49 PM, Andrew Boyce wrote:
> > So I was right. OK. I suppose there isn't much I can do about that, 
> > besides change my provider configuration/use another provider/change 
> > keep_completed?
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