[Swift-user] Problem with app using maxTime

[Lorenzo Pesce]

Diagnosis was perfect. Jobs are running fine now. 

I am going to write a helper script for -resume to that the settings will be "automatically" preserved. 


Thanks.

On Apr 26, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Michael Wilde wrote:

> Lorenzo, for historical reasons which should be fixed (or will be hidden with the gensites utility), maxtime is specified in integer seconds, while maxwalltime needs to be specified in hh:mm:ss ala say PBS style.
> 
> My first guess here is that Swift interpreted maxwalltime to be hours instead of seconds.  so 600 secs should be specified as 00:10:00. Can you try that before we dig deeper into this one?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lorenzo Pesce" <lpesce at uchicago.edu>
>> To: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:58:55 AM
>> Subject: [Swift-user] Problem with app using maxTime
>> From sites.xml:
>> <profile namespace="globus" key="maxTime">1800</profile>
>> <profile namespace="globus" key="maxwalltime">600</profile>
>> <profile namespace="globus" key="lowOverallocation">100</profile>
>> <profile namespace="globus" key="highOverallocation">100</profile>
>> -----
>> 
>> The goal was to ask for 1/2 hour to PBS and tell swift that the jobs
>> are expected to run in 10 minutes.
>> 
>> The error refers to two quantities (walltime and reserve) that I am
>> not sure about.
>> 
>> The jobs were run in a somewhat chaotic way, so I am not sure whether
>> I can reconstruct what happened.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Failed to transfer wrapper log for job DemoRealWrapper-1u8ltcqk
>>> Failed to transfer wrapper log for job DemoRealWrapper-7o8ltcqk
>>> Failed to transfer wrapper log for job DemoRealWrapper-zo8ltcqk
>>> Exception in DemoRealWrapper:
>>> Arguments: [/soft/matlab/7.13, 57.0, 18.0, Win2/X.mat, Win2/]
>>> Host: pbs
>>> Directory:
>>> demo_real-20120424-0818-cecgng88/jobs/1/DemoRealWrapper-1u8ltcqk
>>> stderr.txt:
>>> 
>>> stdout.txt:
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> Caused by: Job walltime > maxTime - reserve (30:00:00 > 00:29:00)
>>> 
>>> Exception in DemoRealWrapper:
>>> Arguments: [/soft/matlab/7.13, 58.0, 18.0, Win3/X.mat, Win3/]
>>> Host: pbs
>>> Directory:
>>> demo_real-20120424-0818-cecgng88/jobs/7/DemoRealWrapper-7o8ltcqk
>>> stderr.txt:
>>> 
>>> stdout.txt:
>>> 
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> -- 
> Michael Wilde
> Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> Argonne National Laboratory
>