[Swift-user] passive worker connection to service.

[Allan Espinosa]

I see.  Now this reduce my concerns to just the persistence of the
coaster service across runs (other post).

Thanks!
-Allan

2010/10/21 Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:53 -0500, Allan Espinosa wrote:
>> Can you guys confirm this for me?
>>
>> Does the passive worker client only initiates one (1) register request
>> to the service?  If so, then that worker is as good as gone when the
>> service shuts down and gets restarted? Or will it register again to
>> that service?
>>
>
> The worker is as good as gone when the service shuts down.
>
> That's why you use a persistent service when you want to persist workers
> between different runs. The passive worker is not meant to address that.
> Instead it is meant to override the automatic worker submission in order
> to allow that to work in environments for which there is no provider.
>


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